There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
VICTOR HUGOThe greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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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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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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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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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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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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 put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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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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