Victor Hugo Quotes, Dream Quotes, Stars Quotes

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

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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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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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