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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4576)

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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Victor Hugo
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
Victor Hugo
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
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