To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGOVirtue has a veil, vice a mask.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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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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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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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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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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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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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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Toleration is the best religion.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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