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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Struggle, Action

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Victor Hugo
Struggle, Hero, Men
Victor Hugo (1914). “The novels”

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

Victor Hugo
Struggle, Men, Humanity
Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea”, p.9, Wildside Press LLC

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

Victor Hugo
War, Struggle, Hypocrisy
Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

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

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Victor Hugo
Struggle, Deeds Done, Done
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.455, Wordsworth Editions

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

Victor Hugo
Children, Giving Up, Struggle

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

Victor Hugo
Struggle, Heart, Ideas

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

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

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