Victor Hugo Quotes, Dream Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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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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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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