You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
VICTOR HUGOTo die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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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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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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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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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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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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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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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