Victor Hugo

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Perancis · 1802 - 1885 · 369 kata bijak

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Kesabaran

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

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Kreativitas

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

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Alam

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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Motivasi

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being." -Jean Valjean about Cossette-

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Seni

Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.

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Kehidupan

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Kehidupan

A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [introduction of character Montparnasse]

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Kehidupan

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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Cinta

The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.

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Kreativitas

This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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Keberanian

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

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Nasihat

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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Kebahagiaan

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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Kreativitas

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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Motivasi

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

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Nasihat

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

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Seni

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

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Kejujuran

Right is just and true.

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Cinta

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.

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Cinta

If no one loved, the sun would go out.

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