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Almost Quotes by Victor Hugo
- We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
- Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;…
- As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
- Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
- The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
- One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
- ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort…
- A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
- Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
- Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
- A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.
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