Reality in strong doses frightens.
VICTOR HUGOTo love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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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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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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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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Love is life, if it is not death.
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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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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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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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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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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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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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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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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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