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“A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”
Victor Hugo
,
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“for a mother who has lost her child, it is always the first day. That grief never grows old. The mourning garments may grow white and threadbare, the heart remains dark.”
Victor Hugo
,
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Love is like a tree; it sprouts forth of itself, sends its roots out deeply through our whole being, and often continues to flourish greenly over a heart in ruins.”
Victor Hugo
,
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. —I shall feel it.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who empties his glass empties his heart.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Oh! love! . . . That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
Victor Hugo
,
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look at Père-Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The little people, the poor, the unhappy,...”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Of what butterfly is, then, this earthly life the grub?”
Victor Hugo
,
The Man Who Laughs
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always necessary to foresee is the unforeseen.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“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
“The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Fashions have wrought more harm than revolutions.”
Victor Hugo
,
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...”
Victor Hugo
,
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“To die for lack of love is horrible.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer...”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.”
Victor Hugo
,
The Man Who Laughs
“Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. Harness locomotives to ideas,—that is well done; but do not mistake the horse for the rider.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“He who does not weep does not see.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“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
“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those three letters of that word: She.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“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
“Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way people do fall in love,...”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
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