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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.


Victor Hugo

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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're...
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!
PHILIP REEVE I love him more than clothes if that's not true love than I dont know what is
ELENA GABRIELLA MUNGUIA If we were really to see one another as brothers and sisters, there would be no basis for division, ...
AULIQ-ICE If we were really to see one another as brothers and sisters, there would be no basis for division, ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter ...
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT We already have a shooting range. I don't see where there's enough people (who would use another) th...
DARRELL FOX Until I know all the facts and see what the outcome ... is, I'm really not going to make any comment...
GARY DAWSON If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving ...
PAUL BOWLES If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th...
GRAHAM GREENE people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ What If dead is another riddle??
Another matrix?
DEYTH BANGER If you have sex, there is other irritation going on, so we wanted to make sure that the only irritat...
ANKE HEMMERLING If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET If we get good rain in the spring, we may not see any impact. If it stays low through spring and ear...
DAVE TERRE What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
VIOLETA GARCIA Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We play...
GINNY REDINGTON If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
POLISH PROVERB If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
I'm not an insider, and I don't really have an agenda. I don't have anyone pulling my strings. I wou...
AJ ULLMANN What do people see in me on the first impression? Can they still see what I was until not lon...
DAVID GROSSMAN The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funnies...
ROBERT LOOMIS If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light
LADY GAGA In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting ...
DAVE MORIN I was extremely upset about my daughter having testicles _ any mother or daddy would be. And my husb...
FRANCES TERRY I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do mo...
JOHN CENA We need a three-bedroom, and if we could find another one of these that we could afford, it would be...
ROSE DE KLERK What we might see happen is an increase in leasing, which was not an option for private use in the e...
BRIAN TAYLOR In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, b...
MARCEL PROUST I hope people come back and give the library another chance. We really hope to be ready for a new ye...
MARTA MERSEREAU At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha...
LARRY MCMURTRY If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in...
SAMUEL BUTLER Victor wouldn't be Victor if he told you what was in it. He assured me no steroid was involved.
TIM MONTGOMERY If (Alan) Greenspan were still leading the Fed, there would be more confidence in another rate hike....
ANDY WHITAKER People dont see you for what you think, they see you for what you say
SIMPLETON It does not matter if u dont sleep often, what matters most is knowing how to use your time precisel...
BILAL ELKHATIB Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT They need to see that I'm healthy. I don't really mind if I can't go. There'll be another one.
TRAVIS BLACKLEY Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of g...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA We're not where we need to be at all. I don't have any quick fixes or any quick formulas. If we did ...
CHARLIE TAAFFE I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared t...
LOUIS LETERRIER There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON They would love to see nothing more than having homes out there.
GASTON CANTENS I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.
BRUCE ALSTON Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. W...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Love me or Hate me,but plz dont use me.
SHUBHAM CHAVAN People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it need...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
UNKNOWN Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes d...
NANCY REAGAN I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
RUTH STOUT I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
DUNCAN JONES I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
MIKE HUCKABEE Dean did not want to see anyone right now, but if he had to make a list of people he did want to see...
T F LINCE Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex; they merely love experiencing ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If you were truly 'here for me,' you would have a Kahlua in one hand and Henry Cavill's number in th...
NAIMA SIMONE If you were truly ‘here for me,’ you would have a Kahlua in one hand and Henry Cavill’s number...
NAIMA SIMONE Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like...
RACHEL HUNTER The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not
MARIA MITCHELL Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not
MARIA MITCHELL Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is...
ROBIN HOBB 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time w...
C. S. LEWIS What birds are out there seem to be scattered because there's a lot of feed. They're not concentrate...
DOUG BOWMAN If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love ...
JOHN GREEN What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write...
GERTRUDE STEIN What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, wr...
GERTRUDE STEIN I'm elated, just elated. I thought there would be one bill or another but not both.
JACKIE YOUNG People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you da...
FREDDIE MERCURY She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB God, make me blind so i can never see her face again...God, make me deaf so i can never hear her voi...
JORDAN PETERS Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying...
SIMONE ELKELES This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased...
MERCEDES LACKEY If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having
HENRY MILLER I am a not exactly a gadget freak and have the regular phones. But I keep multiple phones because if...
AMITABH BACHCHAN For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, tru...
SUZY KASSEM Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they ...
JANE JACOBS If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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VICTOR HUGO What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
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VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO