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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Victor Hugo
Dream, Stars, Flower
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo
Book, Reading, Healing
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo
Library
Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo
Heart, Vacuums, Demolition
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.605, My Ebook Publishing House

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo
Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Victor Hugo
Les Mis, Study
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.72, My Ebook Publishing House

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Victor Hugo
Progress, Brutality, Revolution
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.58, My Ebook Publishing House

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit
Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Victor Hugo
Real, Thinking, Worry
Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Life, Graduation
Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Victor Hugo
Men, Pistols, Triggers
Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Victor Hugo
Civilization, Revolution

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo
Break, Pens, Ifs

Emotion is always new.

Victor Hugo
Emotion
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5405, Delphi Classics

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Victor Hugo
Truth, Legends

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

Victor Hugo
Ideas, Heroism, Madness
Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.205, Dawson Bros.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Victor Hugo
Business, Inspiration, Successful

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

Victor Hugo
Sleep, Night, Sky
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo
Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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

Victor Hugo
Honesty, Strange, Speak
Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

Victor Hugo
War, Taken, Destiny

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Victor Hugo
Beautiful, Ideas, Substance

Loving is half of believing.

Victor Hugo
Love, Believe, Half

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo
Hands, Long, Impossible

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Victor Hugo
Style, Substance, Surface

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