Victor Hugo Quotes, Yesterday Quotes, Forever Quotes

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

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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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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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

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He who despairs is wrong.

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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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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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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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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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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

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