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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo 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.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
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ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
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Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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