Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGOTo die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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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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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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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.
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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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