It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible...

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible...

To love beauty is to see light.

To love beauty is to see light.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything,...

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything,...

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves,...

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves,...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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

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

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

A library implies an act of faith.

A library implies an act of faith.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is...

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is...

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent...

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent...

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and...

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and...

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.