The most beautiful lines from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? · Love is the greeting of the angels to the stars. · Thought is the labour of the intellect; reverie is its pleasure.. (Updated Jan 13, 2024.)
"It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live", the bishop who visited the rich once his money ran out and love as the angels' greeting to the stars: the most quoted lines of Les Misérables.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 15
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Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Monseigneur Myriel, the Bishop of Digne.
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Love is the greeting of the angels to the stars.
The narrator.
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Thought is the labour of the intellect; reverie is its pleasure.
The narrator.
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It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.
Jean Valjean.
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5
He visited the poor as long as he had money; when he had none left, he visited the rich.
The narrator, about Monseigneur Myriel.
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Alas! God gives air to men, and the law sells it to them.
Monseigneur Myriel, the Bishop of Digne.
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The most beautiful of altars is the soul of an unhappy person who has been comforted and thanks God.
Monseigneur Myriel, the Bishop of Digne.
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8
Books are cold but reliable friends.
The narrator.
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9
To travel is to be born and to die at every instant.
The narrator.
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10
To think: that is the true triumph of the soul.
The narrator.
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Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the famous ones.
The narrator.
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12
Sometimes insurrection is resurrection.
The narrator.
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13
If nature is called providence, society should be called foresight.
The narrator.
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14
As little sin as possible is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream of the angel.
Monseigneur Myriel, the Bishop of Digne.
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The soul that loves and suffers is in a sublime state.
The narrator.
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