Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

Victor Hugo

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.

Victor Hugo


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Rien n'est tel que le dogme pour enfanter le rêve. Et rien n'est tel que le rêve pour engendrer l'avenir. Utopie aujourd'hui, chair et os demain.

Victor Hugo


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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Victor Hugo


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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

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Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Victor Hugo


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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Victor Hugo

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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Victor Hugo

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There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.

Victor Hugo


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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo

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