Reality in strong doses frightens.
VICTOR HUGOEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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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 die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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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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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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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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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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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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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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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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Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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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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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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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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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
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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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