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Victor Hugo Inspirational Quotes (902)

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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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I was dying when you came.
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The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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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.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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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.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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