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There are no trifles in the hu...

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

Work is the law of life, and t...

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

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

Do you know what friendship is...

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

A translation in verse . . . s...

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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Nothing is more imminent than ...

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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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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At least you are mine! Soon Ђ'...

At least you are mine! Soon Ђ' in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

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Everybody has noticed the way ...

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

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If we must suffer, let us suff...

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

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Philosophy should be an energy...

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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Slaves would be tyrants were t...

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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Upon the first goblet he read ...

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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God made the water but men mad...

God made the water but men made the wine.

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What says the law? You will no...

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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France lost a great novel last...

France lost a great novel last night.

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, ...

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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I have examined the death pena...

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called 'justice' when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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I tried. But I feel that I hav...

I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, 'I have finished my day's work.' But I cannot say, 'I have finished my life.' My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

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The day that a woman who is pa...

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

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The heart becomes heroic throu...

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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