Victor Hugo

To love is to act.

— Victor Hugo

I was dying when you came.

— Victor Hugo

“Homo homini monstrum”

— Victor Hugo

Life is a voyage.

— Victor Hugo

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

“Sramota žudi za štovanjem.”

— Victor Hugo

“We must be brief.”

— Victor Hugo

“Era lo que no es ya.”

— Victor Hugo

“vicdan insanın içindeki tanrıdır.”

— Victor Hugo

“CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR”

— Victor Hugo

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

— Victor Hugo

“Srušite podrum neznanja, srušili ste jazbinu zločina.”

— Victor Hugo

“Duša se ne predaje očaju pre nego iscrpe sve obmane”

— Victor Hugo

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

— Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

— Victor Hugo

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

— Victor Hugo

“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.”

— Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

— Victor Hugo

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

— Victor Hugo

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

— Victor Hugo

“The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.”

— Victor Hugo

“Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”

— Victor Hugo

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

“Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human…

— Victor Hugo

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both…

— Victor Hugo

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of…

— Victor Hugo

“She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a…

— Victor Hugo

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime,…

— Victor Hugo

“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a…

— Victor Hugo

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you…

— Victor Hugo

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII…

— Victor Hugo

“We were happy and powerful. But the Europeans came to our country; it was from them that I learned the accomplishments which…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; the supreme mass does not depend…

— Victor Hugo

“Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is washed with daylight, I will leave. You see, I know that you wait for…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real…

— Victor Hugo

“Darkness makes the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day feels his heart chilled. When the eye…

— Victor Hugo

“If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun,…

— Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers;…

— Victor Hugo

“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel…

— Victor Hugo