As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great. Victor Hugo heroic passion heart Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. Victor Hugo dream Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. Victor Hugo merit deceiving men It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty! Victor Hugo aim-of-life forget thinking Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven. Victor Hugo angel doors heaven Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign. Victor Hugo labyrinth light morning Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity. Victor Hugo impunity nonsense History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man. Victor Hugo goal men reality To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation. Victor Hugo angel dream men Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right. Victor Hugo irritated may men If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence. Victor Hugo wealth poverty chance Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice. Victor Hugo stones letters book Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. Victor Hugo thread thinking The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you. Victor Hugo being-in-love love-you thinking She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. Victor Hugo lovely blonde gold The malicious have a dark happiness. Victor Hugo malicious bullying dark Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche Victor Hugo faults joy character If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. Victor Hugo sensitive plant stones A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun. Victor Hugo strange darkness sun And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth. Victor Hugo earth sight heaven
