Victor Hugo Quotes
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.
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Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
