Victor Hugo Quotes, Mother Quotes, Sweet Quotes

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

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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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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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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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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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