It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.


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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