A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in... — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,… — 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
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which… — 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
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening… — 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
