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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4581)

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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
Victor Hugo
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
Victor Hugo
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
Victor Hugo
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
Victor Hugo
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
Victor Hugo
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