Victor Hugo Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Thinking Quotes

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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