Victor Hugo Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, One Day Quotes

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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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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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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