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Victor Hugo Quotes

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I'm religiously opposed to religion

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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