The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGOMelancholy is the happiness of being sad.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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