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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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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I was dying when you came.

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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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God knows better than we do what we need.

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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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