Quote by Victor Hugo
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky… a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots. – Victor Hugo

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Other Quotes from
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” – Charles M. Schulz

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[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in. – William Cowper

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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Night

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A minority group has “arrived” only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. – Carl T. Rowan

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