Victor Hugo Quotes, Order Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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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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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

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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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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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