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.
VICTOR HUGOCaution is the eldest child of wisdom.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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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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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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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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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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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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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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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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