The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
VICTOR HUGOAdversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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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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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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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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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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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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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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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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