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.” -Victor Hugo
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“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” -Victor Hugo
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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.” -Victor Hugo
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“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.” -Victor Hugo
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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” -Victor Hugo
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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” -Victor Hugo
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“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.” -Victor Hugo
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“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” -Victor Hugo
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“People do not lack strength they lack will.” -Victor Hugo
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“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” -Victor Hugo
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“Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” -Victor Hugo
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“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” -Victor Hugo
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“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.” -Victor Hugo
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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” -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.” -Victor Hugo
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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” -Victor Hugo
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” -Victor Hugo
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“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.” -Victor Hugo
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“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” -Victor Hugo
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” -Victor Hugo
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” -Victor Hugo
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“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.” -Victor Hugo
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“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.” -Victor Hugo
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“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.” -Victor Hugo
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“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.” -Victor Hugo
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“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.” -Victor Hugo
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“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.” -Victor Hugo
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“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.” -Victor Hugo
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“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.” -Victor Hugo
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“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.” -Victor Hugo
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“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” -Victor Hugo
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“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” -Victor Hugo
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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” -Victor Hugo
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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” -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.” -Victor Hugo
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“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” -Victor Hugo
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“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.” -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.” -Victor Hugo
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“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” -Victor Hugo
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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” -Victor Hugo
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. – Victor Hugo
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