Victor Hugo Quotes, Angel Quotes, Night Quotes

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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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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

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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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Be happy without picking flaws.

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When liberty returns, I will return.

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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.

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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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