This document contains a collection of quotes by Victor Hugo on various topics including love, suffering, light, compassion, ideals, and the human soul. Some key quotes discuss how to love is to be two yet one, how even the darkest night will end, and how human beings become angels through suffering. The quotes convey Hugo's thoughts on human nature, relationships, and finding meaning in life.

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2. Not Being Heard is no Reason for Silence
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live
When you know and when you love you will still
suffer.
The day dawns in tears. The illumined weep, be it
only over the ones in darkness.

3. To Love is to be two and yet one; a man and
woman blended as angels – heaven itself
Look closely at life. It is so constituted that we
feel punishment is everywhere.

4. Study Evil Lovingly.
Identify It.
Cure It.
Staunch the Wound.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will
rise.

5. The Supreme Happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather
loved despite ourselves
If you want peace create love

6. God is Behind Everything, but Everything hides
God
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the
human face.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
To love another person is to see the face of God.

7. People Do Not Lack Strength; They Lack Will
Change your opinions, keep to your principles;
change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

8. Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you
are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or
its little care.
Yesterday you were trembling for the health of
one dear to you, today you fear for your own,
tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money.

9. The next day the slanders of a calumniator, the
day after the misfortune of a friend; then the
weather, then something broken or lost, then a
pleasure for which your are reproached by your
conscience or your vertebral column; and another
time, the course of public affairs, not to mention
heartaches.
One cloud is dissipated, another gathers.

10. We are in the world to care not so much for our
lives, but for souls under our care.
We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the true
robbers, vices the real murderers. The great
danger in life are within us. Why worry about
what threatens us or our wealth; but what
threatens our soul.

11. You who suffer because you love, love still
more! To die of love, is to live by it.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is
adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in
happy old age.
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our
heart by what we give.

12. Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time
is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence,
chaos will soon reign.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are
moments when, whatever the posture of the body,
the soul is on its knees.

13. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on
which it is impossible to be silent.
There is something more terrible than a hell of
suffering – a hell of boredom.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is
impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but
for the valiant, it is ideal.

14. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and
patience for the small ones; and when you have
laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to
sleep in peace. God is awake
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I
am damned!
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

15. And you are of that small number who are lucky!
As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.
The true division of humanity is this; the
illumined and the darkened.
To diminish the number of the dark, to increase
the number of the illumine, there is the aim.

16. It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
The power of a glance has been so much abused in
love stories that it has come to be disbelieved.
Few people daresay nowadays that two beings
have fallen in love because they have looked at
each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and
only that way.
God made the water but men made the wine.

17. If people did not love one another, I really
don't see what use there would be in having
any spring.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven
over the tears of a repentant sinner than over
the white robes of a hundred just men.
Love is the only future God offers.

18. Be compassionate beloved - see how much
suffering there is around you.
Whoever says light does not necessarily say
joy. There is suffering in the light; an excess of
light burns.
The first symptom of love in a young man
is timidity; in a girl boldness.

19. Let us have compassion for the chastened. Who,
alas! Are we ourselves? The earth is not without
resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is
prisoner of Divine Justice?
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal
than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is
by the ideal that we love.

20. With every human face the true nature of one becomes
revealed.
In the smile of the face abides the untainted joy of the
pure of heart or the restrained glee of sinister intent.
In the depth of the eyes resides the combustion of noble
thoughts or the blank stare of a lifeless creature of
whom to be wary and to pity.
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