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.

Doa

Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night!

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Kehidupan

Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

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Kehidupan

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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Cinta

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

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Cinta

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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Kreativitas

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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Doa

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

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Nasihat

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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Perjuangan

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

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Kebahagiaan

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

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Cinta

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

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Waktu

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

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Kehidupan

His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

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Cinta

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

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Persahabatan

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

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Kehidupan

What makes night within us may leave stars.

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Kehidupan

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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Waktu

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

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Waktu

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

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Cinta

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

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