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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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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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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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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