Victor Hugo Quotes, Brother Quotes, Men Quotes

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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Another story must begin!

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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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