French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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