Victor Hugo Quotes
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
Rainbow Rowell
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
Daniel Bruhl
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The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
Randy Wayne White
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
Patrick Modiano
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
Francesca Annis
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Malcolm de Chazal
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
Samantha Harvey
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
Maika Monroe
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Mao Zedong
