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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

Victor Hugo
Wrinkles, Light, Grace

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Victor Hugo
Mind, Atheism, Slavery

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Victor Hugo
Men, Lines, Optical Illusions
Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1969, BookCaps Study Guides

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo
Funny, Horse, Women

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Victor Hugo
Rocks, Agony, Desire
Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

Victor Hugo
God, Pride, Moon

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

Victor Hugo
Sin, Wealth

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Victor Hugo
Love, Life, Romantic

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

Victor Hugo
Love, Song, Stars
"Les misérables".

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Victor Hugo
Men, Impossible, Like Me

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Victor Hugo
Charity, Poverty, Firsts
"Les Misérables: Fantine".

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

Victor Hugo
Art, Light, Heat

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Victor Hugo
Unjust, Way, Reason

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

Victor Hugo
Perseverance, Fate, Goal

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Victor Hugo
Teacher, Atheist, Religion
"The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

Victor Hugo
Money, Men, Wealth

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Sacred, Communion
Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Victor Hugo
Hypocrisy, Suffering, Torture
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Victor Hugo
Ideas, Mind, Sole

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

Victor Hugo
Sleep, Clouds, Bird
Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Victor Hugo
Love Is, Men, Foolishness
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.911, Wordsworth Editions

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

Victor Hugo
Teacher, Learning, Journey

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

Victor Hugo
Flesh, Surface
"The Man Who Laughs".

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Victor Hugo
Morality
Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

Victor Hugo
Cynic, Sewers
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.858, Wordsworth Editions

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