Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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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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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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