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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4576)

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
Victor Hugo
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