The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
VICTOR HUGOThe learned man knows that he is ignorant.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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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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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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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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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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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 is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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