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
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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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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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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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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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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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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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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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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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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