Victor Hugo Quotes
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
