If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
VICTOR HUGOWisdom is the health of the soul.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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