Victor Hugo Quotes, Stars Quotes, Grief Quotes

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

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France is great because she is France.

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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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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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

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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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