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#1

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#2

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

6202 likes

#3

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13924 likes

#4

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#5

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#6

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: courage, inspirational

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#8

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: love

1705 likes

#9

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#10

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#11

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: reading

1095 likes

#12

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos, Les Misérables

1098 likes

#13

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: imagination, intelligence, reason

959 likes

#14

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: honesty

973 likes

#15

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
― Victor Hugo

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#16

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#17

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

786 likes

#18

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16339 likes

#19

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11044 likes

#20

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8553 likes

#21

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#22

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3924 likes

#23

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3579 likes

#24

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3138 likes

#25

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

2898 likes

#26

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2646 likes

#27

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2471 likes

#28

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#29

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

2265 likes

#30

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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