People do not lack strength, they lack will.
VICTOR HUGOA garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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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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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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