God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature… — 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
