To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
VICTOR HUGOIf I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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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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Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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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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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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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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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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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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