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Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
It is not enough to be happy, we must be satisfied with ourselves.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 712)
The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 712)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 632)
Civil war? What does this mean? Is there any foreign war? Is not every war between men, war between brothers? War is modified only by it’s aim. There is neither foreign war, nor civil war; there is only unjust war and just war.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 632)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 541)
the peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 541)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 332-333)
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. . . Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 332-333)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 113)
The best men are often compelled to delegate their authority.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 113)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 25)
Have no fear no fear of robbers or murderers. Such dangers are without, and are but petty. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. What matters it what threatens our heads or our purses? Ler us think only of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 25)