Victor Hugo Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Hands Quotes

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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Despotism is a long crime.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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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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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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Algebra applies to the clouds.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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