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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4583)

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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.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Victor Hugo
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
Victor Hugo
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
Victor Hugo
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
Victor Hugo
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
Victor Hugo
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
Victor Hugo
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Victor Hugo
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
Victor Hugo
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
Victor Hugo
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Victor Hugo
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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
Victor Hugo
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
Victor Hugo
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Victor Hugo
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
Victor Hugo
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
Victor Hugo
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Another story must begin!
Victor Hugo
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
Victor Hugo
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