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 HugoTags: les-misérables
Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.
Victor HugoTags: les-misérables
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]
Victor HugoTags: inspirational society les-misérables poverty political victor-hugo
Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius,je crois que j'étais un peu amoureuse de vous.
Victor HugoTags: last-words les-misérables eponine marius pontmercy thénardier éponine
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor HugoTags: les-misérables musical victor-hugo
If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful world. They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need for charity?
Victor HugoTags: compassion les-misérables charity neighbour
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
Victor HugoTags: les-misérables enjolras
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
Victor HugoTags: love sun les-misérables hugo
Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.
Victor HugoTags: les-misérables victor-hugo
Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces"
"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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