The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
VICTOR HUGOIf people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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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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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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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
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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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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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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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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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