A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGOA 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.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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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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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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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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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