God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
VICTOR HUGOWhen the heart is dry the eye is dry.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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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 die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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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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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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