The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
VICTOR HUGONothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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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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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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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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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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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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