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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4581)

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Victor Hugo
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor Hugo
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
Victor Hugo
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Those who live are those who fight.
Victor Hugo
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
Victor Hugo
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
Victor Hugo
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
Victor Hugo
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Victor Hugo
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
Victor Hugo
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
Victor Hugo
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor Hugo
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Victor Hugo
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Victor Hugo
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
Victor Hugo
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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Victor Hugo
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
Victor Hugo
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo
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