Victor Hugo: Citations en anglais (Page 9)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“To love beauty is to see light.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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