More from Victor Hugo
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo We pardon to the extent that we love.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo 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
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Reality in strong doses frightens.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusEpictetus The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
Lana Del ReyLana Del Rey I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EpicurusEpicurus Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Imam AliImam Ali Remember your end and stop hating.
Pope FrancisPope Francis Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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