Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,...

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,...

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, Sing as if no...

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, Sing as if no...

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially...

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially...

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy...

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy...

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius,...

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius,...

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world...

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world...

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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

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

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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

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

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Insomnia is really a symptom (not a disease). Its really something someone complains to a...

Insomnia is really a symptom (not a disease). Its really something someone complains to a...

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.