“To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".” — victor hugo Copy Share Image
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the… — 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
“Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,… — 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
