There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.” — Victor Hugo Annihilate Copy Share Image
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a” — Victor Hugo Army Copy Share Image
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful? — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. — Victor Hugo Doctor Copy Share Image
“Que lo pongan a uno en libertad no quiere decir que lo liberen de la condena. Del presidio se sale; de la… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in… — Victor Hugo Anguish Copy Share Image
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in… — Victor Hugo Age Copy Share Image
“This is the shade of difference: the door of physicianshould never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.” — Victor Hugo Priest Copy Share Image
“He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying… — Victor Hugo Buddhism Copy Share Image
“There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second… — Victor Hugo Dark Copy Share Image
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So how do magistrates understand the word civilization? Where do we stand with it? Justice reduced to subterfuge and trickery! The law… — Victor Hugo Law Copy Share Image
My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss:… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“We are never done, then, with conscience. Make up your mind what to do with it, Brutus; make up your mind what… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard-table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. — Victor Hugo Exercise Copy Share Image
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown. ” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the… — Victor Hugo Mindset Copy Share Image
“When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.” — Victor Hugo Fate Copy Share Image
“Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That” — Victor Hugo Deliverance Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.” — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo Past Copy Share Image
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. — Victor Hugo Congress Copy Share Image
“Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?” — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. — Victor Hugo Gentle Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.” — Victor Hugo Catastrophe Copy Share Image
