Victor Hugo Quotes, Heart Quotes, Winter Quotes

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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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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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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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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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

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Progress is the stride of God.

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