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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.


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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already,...
ADOLF HITLER The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between myth...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Nothing happened. Why not? Well, 2000 -- that's why not. Because they were prepared, knowing what ha...
BILL SCHNEIDER They were like two enemies in love with one another.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO There was no correspondence between those two. There was nothing in our records.
JOSEPH ORLANDO Hugo, nothing can stop you now,
FIDEL CASTRO The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS ...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
MARGUERITE DURAS One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human be...
HARRY MULISCH The two of us were everything that we needed to be to one another as we sat behind those strings.
COURTNEY GIARDINA The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by...
RIG VEDA Hugo and Pat told me they were going to burn the bodies.
PAUL WEAKLEY Victor got hurt, and Billy was in foul trouble so we had a few starters out. I thought we just didn'...
LARRY HOGAN I remember they were very physical and they were very fast. But they were nothing to be scared of. I...
LARISSA LUTHER I don't feel that my whole game was bad. Those two plays I gave up were deep balls. They weren't tou...
DUANE STARKS Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
TOM ROBBINS One loss and then another loss happened, yeah, exactly. It's hard to deal with two losses in less th...
HARRY TICMAN I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE They wanted more people to be accountable for what happened, instead of just one man. That's what th...
LISA LYONS If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two date...
FERNANDO PESSOA Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Bill...
ORSON SCOTT CARD No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO We were two and had but one heart between us.
FRANCOIS DE MONTCORBIER VILLON We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really...
LEVI STRAUSS These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had ...
VICTOR HUGO Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings
VICKI BAUM One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
CINDY SHEEHAN I give up two and Victor gets us back. That was huge. It was like he erased what I did and we were b...
CLIFF LEE Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one...
BIBLE I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they we...
MICHAEL KORS The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. —...
EREC STEBBINS They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people w...
ELIE WIESEL The only controls available to those on board were two push-buttons on the center post of the cabin ...
KURT VONNEGUT If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between...
RICHELLE MEAD Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
MARK TWAIN Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER This world was meant to be shared by everyone.
What I want to ask is, "What happened?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and th...
CYRUS H. K CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and tho...
CYRUS H. CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and thos...
CYRUS H. CURTIS There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and ...
CYRUS CURTIS Those guys were in another race. We had two world championship finals, if you ask me.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what o...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what o...
ASHLEY MONTAGUE Carlos is a big part of the second team, because between him and Victor (Cortes), they put a lot of ...
CHRIS NICHOLS To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two hu...
VICKI BAUM Nothing we wanted to happen happened. They were a very good team. I think we were just overpowered a...
CHRIS MURIN Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renuncia...
GURU NANAK I was real honored to be right there with those two guys (the troopers). At that point they were jus...
JAMES FARRELL And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of in...
JOHN BANVILLE For most people, the two primary relationships they have are with their families or romantic ones. A...
DANIEL HANDLER Nat picked up two quick ones and they were attacking her well. It was just one of those things.
PAUL GERYCZ Those were good, greasy burgers. I might have to have another one.
BILL GUERIN But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ...
CATHERINE LACEY I'm not sure what happened between them.
BARBARA ROBLES Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can ...
ERICH FROMM Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the f...
DENNIS MILLER The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as sm...
JOYCE CAROL OATES If they feel they have a declarative victor or perhaps don't have enough votes one way or another, s...
CREIG DUNLOP Those two were just incredible. The second one was just ridiculous.
BILL SCARNATY It's always been a one-point match (between those two). We've always won, but it's been close.
CLIFFORD GARNTO In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
ERICH FROMM In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
ERICH FROMM Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on...
ALBERT CAMUS Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across t...
DENNIS MILLER I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And ano...
RITA DOVE They were like the rest of us; they couldn't believe what had just happened.
DON MOTLEY I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two cla...
MAX BEERBOHM They were the right counterbalance to one another.
KELLY MORAN Those guys complement each other. They feed off one another.
ERIC WEDGE Hurricane Hugo, that wasn't even a good shower of rain. It's nothing compared to this.
HARVIN BROCK There are differences between what the driver said happened and what the guys said happened and beca...
MARION WILLIAMS Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

Alarm spread acr...
BRIAN JACQUES Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
ARNOLD BENNETT I saw some two-dollar bills today - They were for sale for eight dollars. Something went severely wr...
MITCH HEDBERG

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VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
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VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
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VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
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VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
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VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
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VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
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VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
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VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
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VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
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VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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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 ...
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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 Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
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VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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