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“So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again!… If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“… It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables

“There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Love is a fault; so be it.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The mother… swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.”

Victor Hugo

“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.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables