Victor Hugo Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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

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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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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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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

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