The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of t... - Victor Hugo
"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."
More quotes by Victor Hugo
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."
"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."