To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Autor: Victor Hugo Copy Quote More from Victor Hugo “Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit..…” “Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.” “A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sig…” “A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous…”