If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOReality in strong doses frightens.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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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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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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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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