Victor Hugo Quotes, Flower Quotes, Sailing Quotes

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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Love is a fault; so be it.

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

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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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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

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