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«There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Honor
| Keywords:
From a Distance, observe, Rules of, The Rules
«Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Absence,
Relationships
| Keywords:
cheat, corresponding, countless, fancies, nevertheless, prevented, sending, separated, Separate reality, The Song of
«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.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
carries, follows, guide, labyrinth, labyrinths, plans, thread, transaction, transactions
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, branches, contemplate, defend, dispel, dispelling, human soul, incomprehensible, inexplicable, perform, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, Rejecting, rid, superstitions, surround, The Miracle, tree branch, tremendous, worship
«He does not weep who does not see»
«Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Misfortune,
Poverty,
Solitude
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, illustrious, isolation, misfortunes, obscure
«In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Humanity,
World
| Keywords:
antechamber, diminish, division, in darkness, plainly
«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.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dawn, eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, endless, entitle, entitled, entitles, His Resurrection, nations, provided, reappearance, resurrection, resurrections, returns, survival, survivals, synonymous, The Light
«Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
bring to, fraternities, fraternity, perils, Strangers
«Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.»
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