It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
VICTOR HUGOHe who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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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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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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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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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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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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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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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.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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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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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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