Victor Hugo Quotes, Flow Quotes, Three Quotes

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

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These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

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

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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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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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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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