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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
— Victor Hugo
One becomes gradually accustomed to poison.
— Victor Hugo
My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.
— Victor Hugo
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A Just Man — Victor Hugo
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
— Victor Hugo
The true artist can only labor con amore.
— Victor Hugo
Why was I not made of stone like thee?
Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire]. — Victor Hugo
Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire]. — Victor Hugo
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
— Victor Hugo
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
— Victor Hugo
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees
— Victor Hugo
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
— Victor Hugo
If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
— Victor Hugo
All that he might have felt of love in his entire life melted into a sort of ineffable radiance.
— Victor Hugo
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
— Victor Hugo
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
— Victor Hugo
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
— Victor Hugo
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
— Victor Hugo
What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs!
— Victor Hugo
He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love,
— Victor Hugo
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
— Victor Hugo
God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content. — Victor Hugo
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content. — Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
— Victor Hugo
Reality in strong doses frightens.
— Victor Hugo
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
— Victor Hugo
Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
— Victor Hugo
Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ...
— Victor Hugo
Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.
— Victor Hugo
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
— Victor Hugo
exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.
— Victor Hugo
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
— Victor Hugo
He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.
— Victor Hugo
Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.
— Victor Hugo
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
— Victor Hugo
The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.
— Victor Hugo
You have knocked at every door?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Have you knocked at that one there?"
"No."
"Knock there. — Victor Hugo
"Yes."
"Have you knocked at that one there?"
"No."
"Knock there. — Victor Hugo
To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
— Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives.
— Victor Hugo
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
— Victor Hugo
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
— Victor Hugo
In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
— Victor Hugo
Progress is the life-style of man.
— Victor Hugo
Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
— Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
— Victor Hugo
Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.
— Victor Hugo
Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God.
— Victor Hugo
Toleration is the best religion.
— Victor Hugo
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
— Victor Hugo
Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
— Victor Hugo
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
— Victor Hugo
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
— Victor Hugo
Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.
— Victor Hugo
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
— Victor Hugo
In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old.
— Victor Hugo
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
— Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
— Victor Hugo
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
— Victor Hugo
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
— Victor Hugo
A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
— Victor Hugo
If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo