Victor Hugo Quotes, Depth Quotes, Substance Quotes

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

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

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