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Those who live are those who fight.

Those who live are those who fight.

Victor Hugo
Life, Fighting

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Victor Hugo
Sleep, Insomnia, Return
Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.779, BookCaps Study Guides

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo
Past, Reign, Chance
"Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Victor Hugo
Law, Boredom, Submit
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

Victor Hugo
Terrible, Motive, Response
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Victor Hugo
Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

Victor Hugo
Country, Hero, Fighting
Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.54, Dawson Bros.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Victor Hugo
Funny, Wisdom, Witty
Victor Hugo (2004). “Notre-Dame de Paris”, p.144, Penguin UK

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

Victor Hugo
Wise, Men, Knows
Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.82, Library of Alexandria

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Victor Hugo
Nonsense, Impunity
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.205, Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Decision, Style

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Verbs
Contemplations bk. 1, no. 8 (1856)

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Victor Hugo
Men, Solitude, Dull
Victor Hugo (2016). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.45, Victor Hugo

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Victor Hugo
Morning, Loving You, Littles
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Victor Hugo

The true artist can only labor con amore.

Victor Hugo
Art, Artist, Labor

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Victor Hugo
Bible, Book, Two

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

Victor Hugo
Death, Wreaths, Germs
Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Victor Hugo
Truth, Hate, Lying
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Victor Hugo
War, Shame, Glory

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Victor Hugo
Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

Victor Hugo
Stupid, Stupidity, Pieces
Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.984, First Avenue Editions

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Victor Hugo
Aim

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Victor Hugo
Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo
Women, Bravery, Curiosity
Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.3, Mondial

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