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Quotes from Ninety-Three — Victor Hugo

1802–1885 France

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Ninety-Three (1874)

Cimourdain knew everything and nothing. He knew everything about science, and nothing at all about life. Hence his inflexibility.

Ninety-Three (1874)

Cimourdain believed that, in social geneses, the extreme point is the solid earth; an error peculiar to minds which replace reason with logic.

Ninety-Three (1874)

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Ninety-Three (1874)

Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him.

Ninety-Three (1874)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Victor Hugo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.