Heart Quotes by Victor Hugo

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

— Victor Hugo

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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“The void in the heart does not accommodate itself to a proxy.”

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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“A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.”

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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins…

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the…

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its…

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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had…

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for…

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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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“Suddenly she let fly with this: "It's nice here!" It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free.”

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad…

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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted,…

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs,…

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“They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking…

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“People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in…

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the…

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left…

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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart…

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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In…

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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and…

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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

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“He now clearly perceived the truth which was henceforth to be the centre of his life, namely, that while she was there,…

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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches…

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course…

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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He…

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon…

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