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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4576)

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
Victor Hugo
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
Victor Hugo
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor Hugo
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