And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert


Victor Hugo

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO