If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOTo love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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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.
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