Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
Victor Hugo
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
VICTOR HUGO Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE What makes night within us may leave stars.
VICTOR HUGO The solitude of our human souls is howled at the stars night after night by dogs.
MARIANA FULGER The stars may shine brightly, but love can shine even brighter.
SARA STRAIN Stars shine with gusto throughout their existence, whether it is dark or light. However, if you stan...
BAMBI DEAN Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars.
BELLA JAMES Okay, fine, we were married elsetime. Anyway, we died of whatever you die from, let’s say natural ...
CAT PATRICK 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 But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine
DAVID NICHOLAS Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO I am but a message in a world full of messengers
NICHOLAS JOHNSON Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO I look into the diary of the universe and find out that every man is a star in the galaxy but until ...
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be ou...
JAMES E. FAUST When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly
PAMELA VAULL STARR Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how...
SANTOSH KALWAR Stars also symbolize the cycle of life, solitude and gravity. They glow in the dark energy that’s ...
L.J. SHEN The sun shine comes, you see the shine you see the color, when night comes you the stars you see the...
DEMI LOVATO Whatever the hell our souls are made of, they are the same.
ANNA TODD The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering pi...
BRIAN SELZNICK Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
Sebastian: By your pa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS We can't all leave a prestigious background or lots of money to visit our children, but we can leave...
NAOMI RHODE Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars sh...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN When you look up to the sky and wonder why? Think of the stars burning bright ,as ascended souls shi...
EVAN KEOUGH I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ...
VICTOR HUGO Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What do stars do? They shine.
NEIL GAIMAN We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, ...
RONALD REAGAN 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 Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the s...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,-...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way...
IRISH BLESSINGS I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a ligh...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY But above all things truth is victor.
BIBLE The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatura...
AMELIA E. BARR Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatura...
AMELIA BARR Can’t hear… call back… good luck…”
“Nïx, I know you’re faking the static.” She...
KRESLEY COLE It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTE Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
LAUREN GILLEY Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
EMILY BRONTë With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves o...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!
ODILLE RAULT Darkness cannot survive in light. But a light can shine in the dark
ODILLE RAULT Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again
MICHAEL ONDAATJE As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of a...
URSULA K. LEGUIN Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
GEORGE BANCROFT Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape...
GEORGE BANCROFT Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape
GEORGE BANCROFT When life gets dark, that's when stars appear among us. Shine bright, beautiful ones. Throw light fr...
JOHN MARK GREEN Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
STEPHENIE MEYER They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
MARY WESLEY The sense of truth goes to the strong and the victor.
STEVEN REDHEAD The truth of the matter is that the Bush Administration is unhappy that the people of Venezuela demo...
JOSE SERRANO The truth of the matter is that the Bush Administration is unhappy that the people of Venezuela demo...
JOSE SERRANO Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.
BRIAN RATHBONE But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so w...
ROBERT ARDREY It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part ...
NEIL GAIMAN Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST There were once two sisters
who were not afriad of the dark
because the dark was full of t...
JANDY NELSON INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!
VERA NAZARIAN This has got to be the toughest sectional in the state of Indiana. Everybody can come out as the vic...
GREG HOLMES Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the durat...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark ...
CATHERINE OF SIENA Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming ...
CHARLES DICKENS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are
reaching for exist ...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT They came out and pressured us in the full-court. I felt we panicked. We'd been handling pressure we...
JULIE MATTSON Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it wil...
LAUREN MILLER At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo...
NATALIE WOOD The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto ...
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