Victor Hugo Quotes, Art Quotes, Soul Quotes

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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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 exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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