Are you afraid of the good you might do?
("Les Miserables")
More Quotes from Victor Hugo:
In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles the lightning plays about them the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.Victor Hugo
These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
Victor Hugo
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
Victor Hugo
In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.
Victor Hugo
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
Victor Hugo
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
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