Victor Hugo Quotes, Passion Quotes, Heart Quotes

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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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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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

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He does not weep who does not see.

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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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