Victor Hugo Quotes, Darkness Quotes

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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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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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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