Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGOThe soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
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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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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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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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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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