The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
VICTOR HUGOHe who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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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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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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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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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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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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