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Sometimes Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
- From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
- One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on…
- All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
- Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
- It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
- One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by…
- There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble…
- Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;…
- Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
- As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes…
- Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach