You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
VICTOR HUGOAdversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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