To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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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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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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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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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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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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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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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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