Victor Hugo Quotes, Two Quotes, Blades Quotes

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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Be happy without picking flaws.

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

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