Victor Hugo Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

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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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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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