To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Autore: Victor Hugo Copy Quote More from Victor Hugo “partir,c'est mourir un peu...” “Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.” “In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or…” “Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.”