Victor Hugo Quotes, Contentment Quotes

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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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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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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

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