Victor Hugo Quotes, Darkness Quotes

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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

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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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