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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom, Men, Soul

Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.303, Victor Hugo

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

Victor Hugo

Feet, Adorable, Soul

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.872, Modern Library

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Victor Hugo

Thinking, Worry, Soul

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

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Victor Hugo

Men, Soul, Darkness

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7026, Delphi Classics

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

Victor Hugo

Real, Silence, Soul

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

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

Victor Hugo

Real, Soul, Vices

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

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Victor Hugo

Ill Will, Soul, Tasks

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

Victor Hugo

Giving, Soul, Despair

Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.463

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Victor Hugo

Real, Soul, Darkness

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

Victor Hugo

Paris, Soul, Preserves

Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Victor Hugo

Evil, Soul, Elements

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Victor Hugo

Soul, Darkness, Wickedness

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions