Victor Hugo Quotes, Running Quotes, Heart Quotes

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

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To have lied is to have suffered.

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

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