Victor Hugo on children
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo We pardon to the extent that we love.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
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