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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Victor Hugo
Happiness, Smile, Laughter

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Victor Hugo
Pearls, Goodness, Wells

To have lied is to have suffered.

Victor Hugo
Lied
Victor Hugo (1894*). “The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo”

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

Victor Hugo
Lying, Deceit, Littles
Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.886, BookCaps Study Guides

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

Victor Hugo
Flower, Soul, Dew
Victor Hugo (1895). “Les miserables: I. Fantine, tr. byWilliam Walton. 2v. II. cosette, tr. by J.C.Beckwith. 2v. III. Marius, tr.by Jules Gray. 2v. IV. The idyl of the Rue Plumet and the epic of the Rue Saint-Denis, tr. by Edouard Jolivet. 2v. V. Jean Valjean, tr. by Jules Gray. 2v”

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

Victor Hugo
People, Would Be, Behavior

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Victor Hugo
Laughing, Suffering, Sometimes

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Victor Hugo
Sorrow, Youth
Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Victor Hugo
Hope, Ignorance, Men
Victor Hugo (1964). “Things seen”

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Victor Hugo
Sad, Being Sad, Melancholy
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5393, Delphi Classics

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Victor Hugo
Men, Merit, Deceiving
Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.66, Booklassic

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

Victor Hugo
Wish
Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, James K. Robinson (2007). “Les Misérables”, p.253, Courier Corporation

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Motivational, Book
Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.597, Modern Library

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Victor Hugo
Hands, Honor, Shadow

I see black light (his last words)

Victor Hugo
Light, Black, Lasts

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Victor Hugo
Hands, Hours, Clock

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Victor Hugo
Men, White, Joy
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.96, My Ebook Publishing House

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Victor Hugo
Cutting, Men, Paris

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo
Suicide, World, Ends
Victor Hugo (1852). “Napoleon the Little”, p.214

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

Victor Hugo
Country, War, Men

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Victor Hugo
Progress, Stage, Accomplished
Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1294, BookCaps Study Guides

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Pain, Men

Despotism is a long crime.

Victor Hugo
Long, Crime, Despotism

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Victor Hugo
Learning, Errors, Nursery

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Victor Hugo
Courage, Heart, May
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5103, Delphi Classics

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