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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great (Victor Hugo Quotes)
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that? (Victor Hugo Quotes)
I’d rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter (Victor Hugo Quotes)
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer (Victor Hugo Quotes)
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted (Victor Hugo Quotes)
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies (Victor Hugo Quotes)
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another’s virtue (Victor Hugo Quotes)
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself (Victor Hugo Quotes)
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering (Victor Hugo Quotes)
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament (Victor Hugo Quotes)
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do (Victor Hugo Quotes)
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do (Victor Hugo Quotes)
... But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men (Victor Hugo Quotes)
... Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears (Victor Hugo Quotes)
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean (Victor Hugo Quotes)
... It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips (Victor Hugo Quotes)
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The mother... swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood (Victor Hugo Quotes)
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest? (Victor Hugo Quotes)
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 (Victor Hugo Quotes)