French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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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.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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