Victor Hugo Quotes

• Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

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  Heart, Giving, Mind

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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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  Hurt, Listening, World

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• The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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  Positive, Names, Impossible

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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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  Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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  Real, Lying, Vices

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.43, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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  Inspirational, Exercise, Imagination

  "Robb, Victor Hugo". Book by Graham Robb, p. 249, 1997.

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• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Names

  Speech by President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, at inauguration of National Conference of the Association for the Progress of Management, www.lamoncloa.gob.es. November 13, 2012.

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  Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

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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. 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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  Night, Free Education, Soul

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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  Wisdom, Decision, Style

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• It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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  Contentment, Enough

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3500, Delphi Classics

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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  Darkness, Mind, Earth

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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  Motivational, Success, Being Strong

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• When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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  Love, Relationship, Wisdom

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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• I think, therefore I doubt.

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  Thinking, Doubt

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• You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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  Stars, Two, Looks

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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  Heart, Black

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  Victor Hugo

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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  Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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  To love another person is to see the face of God.

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  Love, Wedding, Happy Valentines Day

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, Xist Publishing

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