If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
VICTOR HUGORevolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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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.
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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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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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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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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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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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