Victor Hugo Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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

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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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