Victor Hugo Quotes, Science Quotes

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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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 day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

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