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Bird Quotes by Victor Hugo
- The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
- Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless…
- Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a…
- The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.…
- They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but…
- Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had…
- The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was…
- Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she…
- Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has…
- How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the…
- The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
- Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
- The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
- Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that…
- Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that…
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- I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
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