Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Cosette, that man is an angel!


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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