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Victor Hugo - From the Affirmation category:
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Belief category:
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Blocks category:
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.' (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Dreams category:
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Fire category:
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Friendship category:
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Genius category:
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Humour category:
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Ideas category:
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Imagination category:
Imagination is intelligence with an erection. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Indolence category:
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Music category:
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Music category:
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Philosophy category:
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Planning category:
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Pleasure category:
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Poetry category:
A poet is a world enclosed in a man. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Prayer category:
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. (Victor Hugo)
Victor Hugo - From the Writing category:
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. (Victor Hugo)
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