Victor Hugo Quotes, Laughing Quotes, Enthusiasm Quotes

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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