Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants,"… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
