Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
MusicVictor HugoEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Sun, Night, BeginningVictor Hugo in Les MisérablesThe power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesTo love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesNot being heard is no reason for silence.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesLaughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesIt is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesTo love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesThose who do not weep, do not see.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesYou who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesIf I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesLife's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesThere is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesA 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.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesHe was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
Victor Hugo in Les MisérablesHe never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Victor Hugo in Les Misérables