Victor Hugo Quotes, Spring Quotes, Heart Quotes

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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