“This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes… — 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
“Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for oureselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity... — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one… — 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
The power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real… — 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
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a… — 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