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1. "I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity." ~ Victor Hugo
2. "Ce tout petit changement avait été une révolution." ~ Victor Hugo
3. "The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most." ~ Victor Hugo
4. "Hunchback" ~ Victor Hugo
5. "The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest." ~ Victor Hugo
6. "He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy." ~ Victor Hugo
7. "Marius y Cosette no se hablaban, no se saludaban, no se conocían: se veían y, como los astros en el cielo que están separados por millones de leguas, vivían de mirarse." ~ Victor Hugo
8. "The faults of women, children and servants,' he said, 'and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of husbands, fathers and masters, and of the strong, the rich and the learned." ~ Victor Hugo
9. "To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just." ~ Victor Hugo
10. "There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing." ~ Victor Hugo
11. "At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!" ~ Victor Hugo
12. "When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything." ~ Victor Hugo
13. "It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life" ~ Victor Hugo
14. "...Ali junski pljuskovi nisu ništa. Jedva i primetite, jedan sat posle kakve provale oblaka, da je taj lepi plavi dan plakao." ~ Victor Hugo
15. "Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?" ~ Victor Hugo
16. "Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the anguish, the dismay, the despair, became caresses and radiance...and that their sorrows were so many servants preparing their joy. To have suffered, how good it is! Their grief made a halo around their happiness." ~ Victor Hugo
17. "campaigner" ~ Victor Hugo
18. "Tant qu'il y aura sur la terre ignorance et misère, des livres de la nature de celui-ci pourront ne pas être inutiles." ~ Victor Hugo
19. "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do younot? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, Iconsider that I am to be envied." ~ Victor Hugo
20. "and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here." ~ Victor Hugo
21. "Misery offers; society accepts" ~ Victor Hugo
22. "L'œil de l'esprit ne peut trouver nulle part plus d'éblouissements ni plus de ténèbres que dans l'homme ; il ne peut se fixer sur aucune chose qui soit plus redoutable, plus compliquée, plus mystérieuse et plus infinie. Il y a un spectacle plus grand que la mer, c'est le ciel ; il y a un spectacle plus grand que le ciel, c'est l'intérieur de l'âme." ~ Victor Hugo
23. "You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman." ~ Victor Hugo
24. "A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:–"The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage."The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty:"If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go without. If he has no doctor he will die.""And if he has one?""He will die," said the porter." ~ Victor Hugo
25. "To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed." ~ Victor Hugo
26. "At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, and still later killed in the insurrection of April 1834, found him standing not far from his bed, with cartridges in his hands, caught in the act." ~ Victor Hugo
27. "Reality in strong doses frightens." ~ Victor Hugo
28. "God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers." ~ Victor Hugo
29. "Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you." ~ Victor Hugo
30. "At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette's dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes." ~ Victor Hugo
31. "A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won't be ten cartridges in the barricade." ~ Victor Hugo
32. "For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose." ~ Victor Hugo
33. "One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water." ~ Victor Hugo
34. "Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable." ~ Victor Hugo
35. "Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between divine beauty and social hideousness. She spares him nothing of her loveliness, neither wing or butterfly, nor song of bird; in the midst of murder, vengeance, barbarism, he must feel himself watched by holy things; he cannot escape the immense reproach of universal nature and the implacable serenity of the sky. The deformity of human laws is forced to exhibit itself naked amidst the dazzling rays of eternal beauty. Man breaks and destroys; man lays waste; man kills; but the summer remains summer; the lily remains the lily; and the star remains the star....As though it said to man, 'Behold my work. and yours." ~ Victor Hugo
36. "Le mot tantôt comme un passant mystérieux de l'âme, tantot comme un polype noir de l'océan pensê." ~ Victor Hugo
37. "We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts." ~ Victor Hugo
38. "Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches." ~ Victor Hugo
39. "...any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin." ~ Victor Hugo
40. "Protect the workers, encourage the rich." ~ Victor Hugo
41. "For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown." ~ Victor Hugo
42. "A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)" ~ Victor Hugo
43. "Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome" ~ Victor Hugo
44. "Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile." ~ Victor Hugo
45. "With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators." ~ Victor Hugo
46. "Aie dans les veines le doux lait de ta mère, et le généreux esprit de ton père ; sois bon, sois fort, sois honnête, sois juste ! Et reçois, dans le baiser de ta grand-mère, la bénédiction de ton grand-père." ~ Victor Hugo
47. "Un prete opulento è un controsenso. Il prete deve tenersi vicino al povero." ~ Victor Hugo
48. "Prima della rivoluzione, quando un gran personaggio, un maresciallo di Francia, un duca e pari o un principe attraversava una città di quelle regioni, la rappresentanza municipale si recava a fargli un discorso e gli presentava quattro ciotole d'argento in cui erano stati versati quattro vini diversi; sulla prima tazza si leggeva quest'iscrizione: vino di scimma, sulla seconda: vino di leone, sulla terza: vino di montone e sulla quarta: vino di porco. Quelle quattro leggende esprimevano i quattro gradi pei quali discende l'ubriaco: la prima ebbrezza, quella che rallegra; la seconda, quella che eccita; la terza quella che inebetisce e la quarta, finalmente, quella che abbrutisce." ~ Victor Hugo
49. "Many men have a secret monster this way, a disease that they feed, a dragon that gnaws them, a despair that inhabits their night. Such a man seems like others, quite normal. Nobody knows that he has within him a fearful parasitic pain, with a thousand teeth, which lives in the miserable man, who is dying of it. Nobody knows that this man is a gulf. It is stagnant, but deep. From time to time a turmoil, of which we understand nothing, shows up on its surface. A mysterious wrinkle comes along, then vanishes, then reappears; an air bubble rises and bursts. It is a little thing, it is terrible. It is the breathing of the unknown monster." ~ Victor Hugo
50. "A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil." ~ Victor Hugo
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Nu ?tiu ce mi se întâmpla. Simt ca o sa înnebunesc în curând. Habar n-am cum am fost înainte, dar acum tot ce-mi doresc e sânge. Vreau sa omor, sa nu mai gândesc, ci doar sa simt. Sunt un monstru, ?i începe sa-mi placa."
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