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Quotes by Victor Hugo
- A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
- A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
- A great artist is a great man in a great child.
- A library implies an act of faith.
- A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- A war between Europeans is a civil war.
- Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- 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.
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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