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«An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.»
«To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time»
«Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.»
«A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
creditor, owner, owns, slave owner, the Master
«We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
inadequacies, inadequacy, on the side, opposed, religions, sermons, sublimity, wretched
«Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.»
«A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.»
«The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved»
«Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
encounter, execrate, hideous, imperfectly, measureless, mosque, mosques, pagoda, venerate, venerated, wigwam
«Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who kn»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alas, chastisement, chastisements, gaol, resemblance, whence, who are you
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