It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
VICTOR HUGOIf people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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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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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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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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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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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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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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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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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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