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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4576)

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
Victor Hugo
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
Victor Hugo
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Victor Hugo
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I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
Anita Loos
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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.
Victor Hugo
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
Victor Hugo
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Does this boat go to Europe, France?
Anita Loos
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
Victor Hugo
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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
Anita Loos
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
Anita Loos
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
Anita Loos
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
Victor Hugo
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
Victor Hugo
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So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
Anita Loos
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I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
Anita Loos
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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
Anita Loos
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
Anita Loos
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One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
Anita Loos
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
Anita Loos
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo
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