He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. Victor Hugo smile civilization jesus Every man is a book in which God himself writes. Victor Hugo writing men book Loving is half of believing. Victor Hugo half love believe 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? Victor Hugo ocean sea men A library implies an act of faith. Victor Hugo library Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. Victor Hugo take-care care faith Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. Victor Hugo wells pearls goodness Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us. Victor Hugo horse journey hands Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life. Victor Hugo sacrifice gains one-day Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment. Victor Hugo lost-ones positive-thinking dream 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 rome tyrants men Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. Victor Hugo unforeseen vision impossible A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. Victor Hugo incomplete blind men I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World. Victor Hugo party europe civilization History has its truth; and so has legend hers. Victor Hugo legends truth Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo race religious book Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Victor Hugo philosophical flying bird Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope! Victor Hugo wisdom hope men He did not study God; he was dazzled by him. Victor Hugo les-mis study If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. Victor Hugo height ifs suffering
