Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
VICTOR HUGOConscience is God present in man.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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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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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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