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Quotes from Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

1802–1885 France

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6 quotes

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!

Les Misérables (1862)

One can no more pray too much than love too much.

Les Misérables (1862)

The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

Les Misérables (1862)

To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.

Les Misérables (1862)

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Les Misérables (1862)

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

Les Misérables (1862)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Victor Hugo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.