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Victor Hugo quotes

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“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often returned with two.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this conviction the blind man possesses.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Oh, if the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go!” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

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