The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.” — Victor Hugo Intelligence Copy Share Image
“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.” — Victor Hugo Hate Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Aesthetics Copy Share Image
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of… — 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Danger 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 God Copy Share Image
“He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only,"… — Victor Hugo Bravery Copy Share Image
“for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing.… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks… — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the… — Victor Hugo Approach Copy Share Image
“Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
“Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity.… — Victor Hugo Fraternity Copy Share Image
“The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a… — Victor Hugo Philosopher Copy Share Image
“Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare… — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak,… — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
“Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for… — Victor Hugo Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section… — Victor Hugo Caught in the act Copy Share Image
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. — Victor Hugo Doctors Copy Share Image
“To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but… — Victor Hugo Integrity Copy Share Image
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.) — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing? — Victor Hugo Death 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 Blue sky Copy Share Image
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?” — Victor Hugo Shadow Copy Share Image
“To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.” — Victor Hugo Evil within Copy Share Image
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.” — Victor Hugo Deprive Copy Share Image
“In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” — Victor Hugo Friendship Copy Share Image
“Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.” — Victor Hugo Inspirational Copy Share Image
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
