Saturday, April 5, 2014

Les Miserables 1862

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”

“Are you afraid of the good you might do?”

“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”

“I was dying before you came into my life.”

“Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.”

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”

“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. ”“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."

“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”


“There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
Victor Hugo

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