Victor Hugo Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Color Quotes

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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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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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.

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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

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