Victor Hugo Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Heart Quotes

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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I see black light (his last words)

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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He does not weep who does not see.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

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