| He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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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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- Victor Hugo |
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| Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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| Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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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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- Victor Hugo |
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| Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. |
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- Victor Hugo |
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