Victor Hugo Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Color Quotes

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

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Happiness wishes everybody happy.

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