Victor Hugo Quotes, Mother Quotes, Pain Quotes

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

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

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

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