The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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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.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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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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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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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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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