Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
VICTOR HUGOHe never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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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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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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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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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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