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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas. — Victor Hugo

Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? — Victor Hugo

He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. — Victor Hugo

Examine the road over which the fault has passed.
- Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel — Victor Hugo

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. — Victor Hugo

The true artist can only labor con amore. — Victor Hugo

Why was I not made of stone like thee?
Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire]. — Victor Hugo

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! — Victor Hugo

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees — Victor Hugo

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence. — Victor Hugo

If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light. — Victor Hugo

All that he might have felt of love in his entire life melted into a sort of ineffable radiance. — Victor Hugo

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. — Victor Hugo

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo — Victor Hugo

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. — Victor Hugo

What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs! — Victor Hugo

Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo

God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content. — Victor Hugo

A war between Europeans is a civil war. — Victor Hugo

That's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall — Victor Hugo

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. — Victor Hugo

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic. — Victor Hugo

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God. — Victor Hugo

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

If nobody loved, the sun would go out. — Victor Hugo

It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. — Victor Hugo

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. — Victor Hugo

She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form. — Victor Hugo

We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears. — Victor Hugo

The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. — Victor Hugo

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. — Victor Hugo

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. — Victor Hugo

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continuously. — Victor Hugo

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo

We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man. — Victor Hugo

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. — Victor Hugo

Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches. — Victor Hugo

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. — Victor Hugo

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do. — Victor Hugo

Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God. — Victor Hugo

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. — Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion. — Victor Hugo

In the domain of art there is no light without heat. — Victor Hugo

As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night. — Victor Hugo

Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God. — Victor Hugo

Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it. — Victor Hugo

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. — Victor Hugo

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man. — Victor Hugo

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life. — Victor Hugo

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. — Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo

Progress is the life-style of man. — Victor Hugo