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"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."

Hugo, Victor on idleness
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Hugo, Victor on laughter
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"Those who live are those who fight."

Hugo, Victor on life
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"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Hugo, Victor on life
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"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."

Hugo, Victor on animals
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous."

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"Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

Hugo, Victor on music
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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."

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"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

Hugo, Victor on planning
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"We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer."

Hugo, Victor on religion    Share

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on action
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"Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed."

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"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic."

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"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

Hugo, Victor on thoughts and thinking
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"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."

Hugo, Victor on waste
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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Hugo, Victor on power
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Hugo, Victor on common sense
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Hugo, Victor on courage
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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

Hugo, Victor on anger    Share

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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

Hellman, Lillian on science
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"Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell."

Hellman, Lillian on determination
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."

Hemingway, Ernest on learning    Share

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

Hemingway, Ernest on life
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple."

Hemingway, Ernest on criticism
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"How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him."

Hemingway, Ernest on literature    Share

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