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“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“… mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”

“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit…. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.”

“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Morality is truth in full bloom.”

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.”

“One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables