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The cruel of heart have their...

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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Popularity? It's glory's smal...

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

I exist," murmurs someone who...

I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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History has its truth, and so...

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

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In this way, his unhappy soul...

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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Those who always pray are nec...

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

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I am for religion, against re...

I am for religion, against religions.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

In the animal world no creatu...

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

Love is like a tree: it grows...

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

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I like the laughter that open...

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

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Kings are for nations in thei...

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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The pupil dilates in darkness...

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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The malicious have a dark hap...

The malicious have a dark happiness.

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The women laughed and wept; t...

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

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The tomb is not a blind alley...

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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A bird sings, a child prattle...

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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To see so much misery everywh...

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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Whether we be Italians or Fre...

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

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Nothing is more dangerous tha...

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

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Every day has its great grief...

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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