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Heart Quotes by Victor Hugo
- I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
- The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what…
- Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by…
- Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and…
- Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the…
- Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered…
- What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and…
- 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…
- 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…
- In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot…
- There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
- Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
- As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
- Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
- He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
- Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be…
- Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The…
- She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
- Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes…
- The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that…
- There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are…
- The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:…
- Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in…
- Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin