Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
VICTOR HUGOIf I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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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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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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