The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGONobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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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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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
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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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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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