Victor Hugo Quotes, Desire Quotes, Lasts Quotes

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

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

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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