The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGOTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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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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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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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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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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