Victor Hugo Quotes, Clothes Quotes, Giving Quotes

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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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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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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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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The malicious have a dark happiness.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

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

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