Victor Hugo Quotes, Desire Quotes, Lasts Quotes

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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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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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

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

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I see black light (his last words)

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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