Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.


Victor Hugo

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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