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Letter "V" » Victor Hugo Quotes
«Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs»
«You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --»
«Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
casts, cast out, condemned to death, consign, consigned, consigns, corpse, cruelly, human soul, Law of the Sea, penal, pitiless, remorseless, withheld
«There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, Braves, flourish, inch, invasion, In the Shadows, isolation, obstinate, renown, rewards, saluted, salutes, The Shadows, triumphs, trumpets, turpitude
«Popularity? It is glory's small change»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Celebrity
| Keywords:
popularity, small change
«There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Family love,
Fathers
| Keywords:
adore, grandfather, grandson
«The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrival, as a whole, bestiality, daylight, exceptions, falsities, falsity, From Hell, gaps, hydra, limbo
«The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.»
«To love beauty is to see light.»
«Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.»
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