Victor Hugo Quotes, Passion Quotes, Heart Quotes

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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God knows better than we do what we need.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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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.

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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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.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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