God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
VICTOR HUGOTeach 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.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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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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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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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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