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“We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“ان نظرتنا هي التي تحجز الاخرين في انتماءاتهم الاضيق في اغلب الاحيان، و نظرتنا هي القادرة على تحريرهم ايضا.”
― امين معلوف

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. ”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".”
― victor hugo

“That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Misfortunes shared creates happiness.”
― victor hugo

“You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
― Victor Hugo

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.”
― victor hugo

“Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The reflection of a fact is in itself a fact.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.”
― Victor Hugo

“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables