“Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You are risking your life!" "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in the world to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Les Miserables is first of all the product of a varied experience of the world, containing the perceptions of an entire life.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The presence of this extraordinary being caused, as it were, a breath of life to circulate throughout the entire cathedral. It seemed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To love or have loved is enough. Don't ask for anything more. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,… — 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
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go… — 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
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I have repented of the evil that I have done and have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and… — 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
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
