Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
VICTOR HUGOGod has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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.
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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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Nobody 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.
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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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