Victor Hugo Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Lying Quotes

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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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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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

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