There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGOAdversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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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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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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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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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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