Victor Hugo

"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

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"What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."

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"Intoxications of life's morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories?"

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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

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

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"Those who do not weep, do not see."

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"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them."

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."

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"It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live."

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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

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""Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.""

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"A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance."

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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

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"Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs."

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"To learn to read is to light a fire."

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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

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"There is no grandfather who does not adore his grandchildren."

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"Winter is on my head, and eternal spring is in my heart."

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"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again."

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"The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved..."

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"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."

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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

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"Life is the flower of which love is the honey"

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"In calmness lies true pleasure."

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"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

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"Do not educate children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price."

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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

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""Even the darkest nights will end, and the sun will rise.""

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"If people did not love each other, I really do not see what use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, the birds and the pretty maidens."

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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves--say rather, loved in spite of ourselves; the conviction the blind have."

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"A writer is a world trapped in a person."

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""Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.""

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""To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.""

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"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."

- Victor Hugo

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

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

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"“Do you know what friendship is… It is to be brother and sister, two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.”"

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"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."

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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."

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"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."

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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. There are many locks, and keys are lost. But sometimes, and it is rare, sometimes, somewhere, one of the keys fits one of the locks, and then the world opens. A moment comes, and it is this moment, when the right key slides into the right lock, and turns. Today, this is your moment."

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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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"If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother."

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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles. Change your leaves, keep your roots intact."

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"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."

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"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."

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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."

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""A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.""

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"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."

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"How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn’t listen."

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"Music expresses which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

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

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"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."

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"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."

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"Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as as the survival of the soul."

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"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."

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"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Certain thoughts are prayers."

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"To love beauty is to see light."

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"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

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

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"He who opens a school door closes a prison."

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

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"A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sons sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and sons sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Victor Hugo

"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them"

- Victor Hugo

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."

- Victor Hugo

"Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in the them."

- Victor Hugo

""A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sons sleep soundly in them.""

- Victor Hugo

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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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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"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"

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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. God is awake."

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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."

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"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."

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""Sweet the coming on/Of grateful evening mild; then silent night/With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,/And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.""

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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

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"The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved."

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"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

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"Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs."

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

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