“Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.” — Victor Hugo Deliverance Copy Share Image
“Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.” — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Motive Copy Share Image
“Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.” — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird,… — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
“There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in rags and come from who knows where, were in 1823 exhibiting to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then she looked at Marius, put on a strange expression and said to him, “Do you know, Monsieur Marius, you’re a very… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is… — Victor Hugo Advantage Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Affliction Copy Share Image
“The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor… — Victor Hugo Gloomy Copy Share Image
“She could become a child again, run and frolic, leave her hat on Valjean’s knees and fill it with bunches of wild… — Victor Hugo Butterflies Copy Share Image
“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow… — Victor Hugo Prayer Copy Share Image
“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.” — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. — Victor Hugo Fruit Copy Share Image
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“these cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst” — Victor Hugo Mind Copy Share Image
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. — Victor Hugo Carnival Copy Share Image
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Attitude Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.” — Victor Hugo Opinions Copy Share Image
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal… — Victor Hugo Devil Copy Share Image
“Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.” — Victor Hugo Corruption Copy Share Image
“what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.” — Victor Hugo Hell Copy Share Image
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none. — Victor Hugo Fist Copy Share Image
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity... — Victor Hugo Equilibrium Copy Share Image
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