Victor Hugo Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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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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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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No religion but blasphemes a little.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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Morality is truth in full bloom.

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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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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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