God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two. — Victor Hugo Hope Copy Share Image
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.” — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground. — Victor Hugo Shadow Copy Share Image
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo Dignity Copy Share Image
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the whole, for these petty contradictions of… — Victor Hugo Contradictions Copy Share Image
“But you are good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the good God should constitute… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious… — Victor Hugo Ambition Copy Share Image
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It… — Victor Hugo Adversity Copy Share Image
“One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow … Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the… — Victor Hugo Happiness 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 Brother Copy Share Image
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing… — Victor Hugo Bells 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
“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This Boulatruelle was a man in bad odour with the people of the neighbourhood; he was too respectful, too humble, prompt to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards the Saint Jean market.… — Victor Hugo Barber Copy Share Image
