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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is t

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo

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Happiness
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Victor Hugo
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. – Victor Hugo

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Integrity
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Victor Hugo
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo

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Women
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Victor Hugo
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – Ellen Key

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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Imagination

Love doesnt grow on trees like apples in Eden – its something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – Joyce Cary

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. – Sandra Bernhard

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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. – Barbara de Angelis

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