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

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

By : Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

By : Victor Hugo

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

By : Victor Hugo

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

By : Victor Hugo

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

By : Victor Hugo

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

By : Victor Hugo

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

By : Victor Hugo

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Forty is the old age of youth

By : Victor Hugo

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

By : Victor Hugo

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No one can keep a secret better than a child.

By : Victor Hugo

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

By : Victor Hugo

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ

By : Victor Hugo

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