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 HUGOMelancholy is the happiness of being sad.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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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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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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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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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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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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