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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
VICTOR HUGO, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity in spite of humanity.
VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO, Histoire d'un crime
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO, Intellectual Autobiography
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables
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