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Quotes from Victor Hugo

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
~ Victor Hugo
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
~ Victor Hugo
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
~ Victor Hugo
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
~ Victor Hugo
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
~ Victor Hugo
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
~ Victor Hugo
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
~ Victor Hugo
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
~ Victor Hugo
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
~ Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
~ Victor Hugo
Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
~ Victor Hugo
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
~ Victor Hugo
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
~ Victor Hugo
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
~ Victor Hugo
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
~ Victor Hugo
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
~ Victor Hugo
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
~ Victor Hugo
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
~ Victor Hugo
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
~ Victor Hugo
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
~ Victor Hugo
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
~ Victor Hugo
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
~ Victor Hugo
Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
~ Victor Hugo