Victor Hugo on love
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
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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.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo 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.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Conscience is God present in man.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo 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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Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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