“The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.” — Victor Hugo Elephant Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.” — Victor Hugo Disintegrate Copy Share Image
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo Falsehood Copy Share Image
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come” — Victor Hugo Inspirational Copy Share Image
“One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven.” — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Contradiction 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 Father Copy Share Image
“Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
“Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because… — Victor Hugo Napoleon Copy Share Image
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist;… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
“there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables;… — 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 Anguish Copy Share Image
“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Quant au mode de prier, peu importe le nom, pourvu qu'il soit sincère. Tournez votre livre à l'envers et soyez à l'infini"… — Victor Hugo Pray Copy Share Image
“our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep… — Victor Hugo Children 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 Entire life Copy Share Image
“After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In that sequence, O and P are inseparable. You… — Victor Hugo Admiration Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“Some odd things were found; among other things the skeleton of an ourang-outang which disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
