During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
VICTOR HUGOMelancholy is the happiness of being sad.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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