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JEAN COCTEAU ...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth...
VICTOR HUGO Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
NICK HORNBY 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 A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
HELEN ROWLAND You are a woman, my lady," the Greatjon rumbled in his deep voice. "Women do not understand these th...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes
VICTOR HUGO When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one wor...
MIRANDA LINDA WEISZ 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 If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
GEORGE CARLIN It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
JONNY GREENWOOD No one knows how you feel unless you say something, and no one wants to stay on the sidelines and ju...
XAVIER LEE No one knows what he or she is capable of until things are at their darkest.
A.G. HOWARD The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns w...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER No," Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena w...
SUZANNE COLLINS I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. ...
ALLY CONDIE One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a wor...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.
MARIAN KEYES Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.
CHRISTIAN DIOR Microsoft faces a huge bottleneck problem. Microsoft has to change. There's no doubt about it. But w...
MICHAEL CUSUMANO We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a wor...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Some people might say your not a very pretty woman or really pretty woman, but I want to be the one ...
~RAM CHANDER(RC) Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
CARL SANDBURG We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
CLINT EASTWOOD We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has
CLINT EASTWOOD And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once te...
MARY MACLANE One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS To walk on the journey of time through the valleys of truth to the land of lies it takes us to place...
GARY F EVANS... I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles...
ZSA ZSA GABOR It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense,...
LEO TOLSTOY There was one woman at a press junket before the film was released who was very upset over the thing...
BOB SAGET When the world looks at a woman, it sees one of two things... A bitch or a victim. Which one do you ...
MELANIE TREVATHAN I knew such a woman once,
She gave me everything.
Her love like a soft riot singing,
...
SCOTT HASTIE A slighted woman knows no bounds.
JOHN VANBRUGH I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run ...
RAYMOND CATTELL No one knows better than a sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys we...
DALE V. ATKINS It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that a...
CHRISTOPHER WREN Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
MARTIN AMIS How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or ...
LIBBA BRAY No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Their rationale is, once you let go, all this reporting will go in one direction, [which] they say i...
WENRAN JIANG She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people...
HOWARD JACOBSON She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is...
ANDERSON COOPER No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not ...
WOODROW WILSON Without Your Opponent, You are no Victor.
ANAJO BLACK No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how...
SCOTT STOSSEL A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It shows no-one knows how fast a man can run
ASAFA POWELL If it happened once, it can happen again. But no one knows when.
ROCCO BALDELLI Any leader who does not do this will totally burn out, and once they've burned out, you can't get th...
DENISE LAYNE No one really knows enough to be a pessimist
NORMAN COUSINS I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he k...
OLIVER CROMWELL I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he k...
OLIVER CROMWELL There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work...
DONNA GODDARD No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI ...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...
JOHN GEDDES Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return
SENECA It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but ob...
GREG EGAN Victor really respects the game. He knows that it's a long haul. We always felt like he was going to...
ERIC WEDGE The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
JOYCE MAYNARD But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of h...
PETER WASHINGTON From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words ...
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
DIANA VREELAND No one Understand any one's situation, They only knows How to Blame...
MIT GAJJAR Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wantin...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not togeth...
COMPTON GAGE Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch and say, 'See if...
HARRY BROWNE Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. W...
ANNA LEE I saw things which you know are not right but which you have no power to stop. If you say anything, ...
DEAN THOMAS A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.
CHLOE THURLOW I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
UMBERTO ECO A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that’s n...
CATHERINE DENEUVE It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that’s no...
CATHERINE DENEUVE I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get,...
MELANIE FIONA No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they sa...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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.
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 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 To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
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.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
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.
VICTOR HUGO It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
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.
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
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...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
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.
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