Victor Hugo Quotes, Stars Quotes, Night Quotes

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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