Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To love beauty is to see light. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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