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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4576)

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
Victor Hugo
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Victor Hugo
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Victor Hugo
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor Hugo
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
Victor Hugo
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
Victor Hugo
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
Victor Hugo
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
Victor Hugo
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