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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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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

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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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

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To have lied is to have suffered.

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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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

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