Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her still she sings away all

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her still she sings away all Victor Hugo Quotes

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch, that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Author: Victor Hugo

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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