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“… where there is no more hope, song remains.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
Source: Les Misérables

“The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

Victor Hugo

Source: Ninety-Three

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
Part I, Book II, Chapter II, Section V
William Shakespeare (1864)
Source: Les Misérables

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Reality in strong doses frightens.”

Victor Hugo

Source: The Toilers of the Sea

“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables