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Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.
— Victor Hugo
It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
— Victor Hugo
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
— Victor Hugo
If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.
— Victor Hugo
An opulent priest is a contradiction.
— Victor Hugo
There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
— Victor Hugo
These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.
— Victor Hugo
What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.
— Victor Hugo
Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.
— Victor Hugo
There was a coffin containing a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but no one was aware of it.
— Victor Hugo