Victor Hugo Quotes, Eggs Quotes, Bird Quotes

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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To love beauty is to see light.

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At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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