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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4581)

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
Victor Hugo
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
Victor Hugo
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
Victor Hugo
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
Victor Hugo
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
Victor Hugo
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
Victor Hugo
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
Victor Hugo
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
Victor Hugo
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
Victor Hugo
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
Victor Hugo
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
Victor Hugo
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor Hugo
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor Hugo
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
Victor Hugo
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Victor Hugo
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
Victor Hugo
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