When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
VICTOR HUGO
VICTOR HUGO
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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.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Wisdom is the health of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Toleration is the best religion.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
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