One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor HugoTo be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor HugoOne only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
Victor HugoThere is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo