Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend
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Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.
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New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
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It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
