Quotes about Hugo

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquain — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens — it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour — light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
Praying to the Almighty, Javert?” called a voice, and Javert opened his eyes to see Rousseau and Leclerc smirking at him — Kelsey Brickl, Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved — loved for one's own sake-let us say rather in spite of one's self.
You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause — Courtney Milan, The Governess Affair
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay mo — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant a — Christopher Hitchens
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer — that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the — Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
He loved books — books are cold but safe friends.
Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh, l — Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war — there is only just and unjust war.
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men. — Victor Hugo
Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration af — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, An — Walter M. Miller Jr.
To learn to read is to light a fire — every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future — a reflex from the future on the past.
Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three child — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables