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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them (Victor Hugo Quotes)
It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! (Victor Hugo Quotes)
...the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
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. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Do you know what friendship is?’ he asked.’Yes,’ replied the gypsy; ‘it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.’’And love?’ pursued Gringoire.’Oh! love!’ said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. ‘That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots (Victor Hugo Quotes)
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. God is awake. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve (Victor Hugo Quotes)
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. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts (Victor Hugo Quotes)
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one’s head. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word ‘respectable,’ whereas to be ‘venerable,’ a woman should lso be a mother. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God (Victor Hugo Quotes)
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good. (Victor Hugo Quotes)