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Him Quotes by Victor Hugo
- God was bored by him.
- It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
- He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- 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…
- The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.…
- Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
- Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
- A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
- He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of…
- Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
- ...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God…
- He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
- Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,…
- Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known…
- A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin…
- Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that…
- In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities…
- He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
- It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
- And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
- He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the…
- Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad;…
- A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
- The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
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- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden