Victor Hugo Quotes
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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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.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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To love is to act.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.