Victor Hugo Zitate auf Englisch

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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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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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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