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“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“… But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”

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“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Love is the only future God offers.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”

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“Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Source: Les Misérables

“Nothing is more imminent than the impossible… what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“God knows better than we do what we need.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables