Victor Hugo Quotes, Anger Quotes, Voice Quotes

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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He does not weep who does not see.

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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

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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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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

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