The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
VICTOR HUGOReality in strong doses frightens.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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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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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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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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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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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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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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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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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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