There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGOCaution is the eldest child of wisdom.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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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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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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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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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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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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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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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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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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