Victor Hugo: ” A Certain Amount of Reverie is Good”

The Sources of Reverie

“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas… Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it’s pleasure.”

―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Victor Hugo: “The Over-Prudent Sometimes Occur More Damage Than the Audacious”

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“Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, “Do come in!” There are men who, when an incident stands half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than the audacious.”

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables