Victor Hugo Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Aim Of Life Quotes

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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

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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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

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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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