Victor Hugo Quotes, Song Quotes, Drama Quotes

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

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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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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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God was bored by him.

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I was dying when you came.

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

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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

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