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JEAN COCTEAU Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.
STEVEN MAGEE Iam kind of hoping the rest of my night will be full os regretful behavior and irreversible decision...
CHRISTINE ZOLENDZ This is intriguing because it could mean (the shroud) derived from an original image of Jesus from w...
CARTER LUPTON The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that...
KARL BARTH To illustrate the nature of this theandric reciprocity, Thomas invokes, as an example, the physical ...
AARON RICHES Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Real happiness or joy is not the one derived from material substance,nor the one derived from marria...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not th...
JULIE OTSUKA We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not th...
JULIE OTSUKA Every moment of your life is a gift. It's a gift from the Divine, and the gift of the Divine is aski...
TONY SAMARA Sarcasm comes from the ancient Greek σαρκάζω (sarkazo) meaning 'to tear flesh' - only thing t...
HARSHIT SHAH I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psycho...
BRENNAN MANNING It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING All divine power is within you to accomplish great things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Dear Jesus! 'tis Thy Holy Face Is here the star that guides my way; Thy countenance, so full of...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of...
BIBLE Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Fe...
HOLLY HUNTER It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
WILLIAM GODWIN Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in...
BLAISE PASCAL I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Vict...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the ch...
NAHOKO UEHASHI I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakn...
TRYON EDWARDS And one smile, and another smiled, and they all smiled, for joy that Christiana was become a pilgrim...
JOHN BUNYON Faith in a written revelation is a real, unfeigned, and so far respectable faith, only where it is b...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
SOL LEWITT The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inheren...
SAINT-JOHN PERSE A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

Donald Gray expre...
BRENNAN MANNING You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here t...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and th...
TAYLOR CALDWELL Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab...
T. B. JOSHUA Through the grace of God,I'm a victor not a victim.
CHRISTY BARRITT The value of a company can be derived from adding the value of all future dividends written down to ...
STEPHEN ASBURY Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS When you forgive it takes you from the place of the victim to that of a victor.
UNKNOWN But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
BREE DESPAIN The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Making decent human beings accept the principle of a private, divine covenant be it first, second, t...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greatest thing about any civilization is the human person, and the greatest thing about this per...
CHARLES MALIK And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPER I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ...
CHARLES SPURGEON There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
MIKE WHITE Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
PAUL DI FILIPPO The greatest joy is the grace of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by enc...
KILROY J. OLDSTER To summarize, then, it appears that Christian holiness is a number of things together. It has both o...
J.I. PACKER Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special provi...
JILL LEPORE Each of the 272 items is a masterpiece from the British Museum's vast collections and together they ...
GUO XIAOLING The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and pet...
LUDWIG VON MISES It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that...
STEVEN MAGEE Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that w...
TONY CAMPOLO I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of ...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe...
M. SCOTT PECK The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes
CONFUCIUS People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall.
NAVEED A. KHAN Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from hu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
UNKNOWN Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh Was that it was for not being such a smil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.
KAHLIL GIBRAN If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and tha...
BLAISE PASCAL The search for the Divine Being is the grace to seek the divine life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
TOM STOPPARD

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...
VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
VICTOR HUGO It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
VICTOR HUGO What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO