Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
VICTOR HUGOTo die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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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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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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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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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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