“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most,… — Victor Hugo Anxiety Copy Share Image
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension… — Victor Hugo Cosette Copy Share Image
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I… — Victor Hugo Cry Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is… — Victor Hugo Dignity Copy Share Image
“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at… — Victor Hugo Convent Copy Share Image
“Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras folded his arms and accepted his end, the din… — Victor Hugo Apollo Copy Share Image
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more… — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“What a transfiguration it is to love! And the little shrieks, the pursuits in the grass, the waists encircled by stealth, the… — Victor Hugo Love 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
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken… — Victor Hugo Good intentions Copy Share Image
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
“Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the… — Victor Hugo Advent Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old,… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!” — Victor Hugo Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and… — Victor Hugo Facts Copy Share Image
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and… — Victor Hugo Crime Copy Share Image
“There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They… — Victor Hugo Angels Copy Share Image
“He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of… — Victor Hugo Infinite space Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo Butterfly Copy Share Image
“Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Abandonment Copy Share Image
“In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped… — Victor Hugo Liberty Copy Share Image
“You are risking your life!" "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in the world to… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“He had, like everyone else, his suffix ist, without which nobody could have lived in those days, but he was neither a… — Victor Hugo Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you;… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
“fortunately or unfortunately, man is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and physically, without dying; that it… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Ne može se spriječiti misao da se vrati samoj sebi, kao što se ne može spriječiti more da se vrati obali. Za… — Victor Hugo Bog Copy Share Image
Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the… — Victor Hugo Revolution Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
