Victor Hugo Quotes, Needs Quotes, Bread Quotes

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

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God was bored by him.

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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

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

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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

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

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