Victor Hugo Quotes, Heart Quotes, Winter Quotes

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

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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The malicious have a dark happiness.

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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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