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Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885 • French • Author
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Collected Meditations
Showing 15 quotesHow 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.— Victor Hugo
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.— Victor Hugo
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Thanksgiving
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.— Victor Hugo
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Sympathy
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.— Victor Hugo
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Smile