Victor Hugo Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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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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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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