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 HUGOThere is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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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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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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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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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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