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 HUGOLove is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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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.
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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
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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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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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