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“… there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“I see black light (his last words)”

“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety…. One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.”

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

“I think, therefore I doubt.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”

Source: The Toilers of the Sea

“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables