Victor Hugo quotes - page 5

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. (Victor Hugo)
Are you afraid of the good you might do? View quote
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. View quote
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical? View quote
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. View quote
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. View quote
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. View quote
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. View quote
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. View quote
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. View quote
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. (Victor Hugo)
At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner. View quote
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder. View quote
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. View quote
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She worked in order to live, and presently fel in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger. View quote
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. View quote
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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. View quote
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. View quote
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. View quote
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. View quote
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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. (Victor Hugo)
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. View quote
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. View quote
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn. View quote
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. View quote
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