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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7319)

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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.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Victor Hugo
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
Victor Hugo
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
Victor Hugo
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor Hugo
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
Victor Hugo
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
Victor Hugo
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor Hugo
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor Hugo
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
Victor Hugo
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
Victor Hugo
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
Victor Hugo
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Victor Hugo
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
Victor Hugo
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
Victor Hugo
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
Victor Hugo
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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
Victor Hugo
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
Victor Hugo
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
Victor Hugo
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Victor Hugo
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
Victor Hugo
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