During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
VICTOR HUGONot seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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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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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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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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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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