Victor Hugo

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon – it’s time to cash in!

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand. (Anna Karenina)

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Love is only one fine star away.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly (Anna Karenina)

I’m well acquainted with villains that live in my head.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.