Victor Hugo Quotes, Soul Quotes, Darkness Quotes

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

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

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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