Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Quotes

• “Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a numbe...”
• “...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered ...”
• “The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; ...”
• “Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished...”
• “When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far ...”
• “There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are...”
• “Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer ...”
• “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare no...”
• “Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has...”
• “Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day i...”
• “This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something...”
• “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the i...”
• “...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of wom...”
• “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of our...”
• “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds Go...”
• “À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombr...”
• “If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”
• “where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
• “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
• “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
• “I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
• “As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.”
• “Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
• “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
• “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
• “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
• “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
• “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
• “Love is the only future God offers.”
• “Those who do not weep, do not see.”
• “Be happy without picking flaws.”
• “Sin is a gravitation.”