Victor Hugo Quotes, Memories Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

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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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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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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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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Those who live are those who fight.

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France lost a great novel last night.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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A library implies an act of faith.

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

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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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