Victor Hugo Quotes
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
Quotes to Explore
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
