“But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. — Victor Hugo Beginning Copy Share Image
“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo Boldness Copy Share Image
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Naučiti čitati isto je što i upaliti vatru; svaki sročeni slog je varnica.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.” — Victor Hugo Hair Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
“they no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so.” — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we… — Victor Hugo Corruption Copy Share Image
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old… — Victor Hugo Abuse Copy Share Image
“What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel… — Victor Hugo Birth Copy Share Image
“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that,… — Victor Hugo Crisis Copy Share Image
“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for the night. He whose name is a… — Victor Hugo Burden Copy Share Image
In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which that which is pitiless—that is to say, that which is brutalizing—predominates, is to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its… — Victor Hugo Human society Copy Share Image
“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human… — Victor Hugo Children 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 Absence Copy Share Image
“What was he doing during the trip? What was he thinking about? As he had during the morning, he watched the trees… — Victor Hugo Aspects of life Copy Share Image
“To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of the throne, and the mitre… — Victor Hugo Respect Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo Age Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Aging Copy Share Image
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. — Victor Hugo Anxiety Copy Share Image
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. — Victor Hugo Eternal Copy Share Image
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.” — Victor Hugo Imagination Copy Share Image
“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips. — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Charm Copy Share Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.” — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
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