An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGOCaution is the eldest child of wisdom.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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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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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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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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