A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Victor Hugo

2 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!— filed under God's Sovereignty
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.— filed under Immortality
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