Victor Hugo Quotes, Night Quotes

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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