Victor Hugo on book
“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.”
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo 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.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is life, if it is not death.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on book
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John GreenJohn Green You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
Jeff BezosJeff Bezos Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John GreenJohn Green You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
Jeff BezosJeff Bezos Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei