Victor Hugo Quotes, God Quotes, Giving Quotes

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

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People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

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Algebra applies to the clouds.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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

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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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When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

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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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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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