Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.


Victor Hugo

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To stand on the
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Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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People see what they want to see
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The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
To love is to act.
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War is no solution to peace.
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I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
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Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
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See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
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I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
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He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
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Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
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Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
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He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
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Don't take it easy until life goes down to your level.
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It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
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I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
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Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
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People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
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You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
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The Q...
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Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
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The sad heart needs work to do.
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
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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.
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L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
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I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
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There passes for a moment the fig...
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Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
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Why things are not easy? * 'Cause life is not.
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Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
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You achieve nothing wishing to be trained. If you want to get better, go get trained
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My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
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Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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To love is to act.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Popularity is glory's small change.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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A library implies an act of faith
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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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