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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#thousand #type #ugly

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

A library implies an act of faith. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#faith #implies #library

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creditor #dignity #master #only #owns

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

#amnesty #both #both sides #give #good

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#come #else #idea #nothing #powerful

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#evil #mistrust #more #rejoice #than

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#circle #facts #focal #ideas #mankind

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.' ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bored #himself #killed #lack #life

People do not lack strength; they lack will. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#people #strength #will