" Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. "

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. "

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Oh! love!… That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. "

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13 French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. "

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862 French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls “grace” from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call “rigtheousness.” "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. "

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. "

Victor Hugo, “Les Miserables” French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. "

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862 French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Do you know what friendship is… it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. "

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13 French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" To love another person is to see the face of God. "

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

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