I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.


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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO
The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO
A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO