Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
VICTOR HUGOThe power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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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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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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