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Victor Hugo: top 100 quotes
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Love (n.) is a substitute for thinking, a burning, illogical forgetfulness of all other things.
Love (n.) is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Love (n.) is at once the foolishness of men and the wisdom of God.
Love (n.) is, in a young man, at first timidity, in a young woman, boldness, with each of the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
Love (n.) is reducing the universe to one being.
Love (n.) is a grand thing to receive and a grander thing still to do.
Love's (n.) great acts are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
to Love (n.) is to suffer. One who suffers because one loves, loves still more, because to die of love, is to live by it.
Love (n.) is to be two and to be but one, a man and a woman mingled into one angel while friendship is to be brother and sister... two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Love (n.) is rarely deserved — we are loved in spite of what we are.
Genius's (n.) common sense is taste.
Genius (n.) is a promontory jutting out into the future.
The Genius (n.) is like anything lofty, be it a masterpiece or a mountain: seen too near, they're appalling.
Imagination (n.) is intelligence with an erection.
Imagination (n.) is intelligence with an erection whereas reason is intelligence taking exercise.
Imagination (n.) is that by which the quantity of a civilization can be measured.
Imagination (n.) is necessary. If you don't build castles in the air, you won't build anything on the ground.
Imagination (n.) is the mistress, intelligence is the wife, memory is the servant.
Friend (n.) is sometimes a word devoid of meaning... enemy, never.
The Dream (n.) is the aquarium of the night.
Melancholy (n.) is the pleasure of being sad.
Admiration (n.) , for the wicked, takes the form of envy and hate.