I was always a lover of soft-winged things. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny! Victor Hugo giving-upstrugglechildren Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin. Victor Hugo uselessgiving The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. Victor Hugo glimpsebuddhismmen The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. Victor Hugo lawdoejesus Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. Victor Hugo like-meimpossiblemen It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. Victor Hugo exaggeration-isflameslight The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. Victor Hugo divinewritingart But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. Victor Hugo devilvictorymen Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. Victor Hugo vengeancepunishmentwisdom The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. Victor Hugo symphonysimpleworld For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. Victor Hugo desertkingswind God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. Victor Hugo naturemenart From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. Victor Hugo natureeyeanimal Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. Victor Hugo realworrythinking Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil. Victor Hugo fateignorancemen M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist. Victor Hugo passionatepolitical-opinionsbook M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. Victor Hugo fatemouthsthinking Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. Victor Hugo errorsdarksides We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer. Victor Hugo prayerbelievereligion Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity. Victor Hugo heartspringcivilization
