Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGOFew 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.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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