A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.
Victor HugoWhen we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul.
Victor HugoLa pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor HugoMore powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.
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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 HugoThat's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall
Victor HugoIn our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are learnt. There must be no void in the human heart.
Victor HugoMa vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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