“Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of… — Victor Hugo Girl Copy Share Image
“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.” — Victor Hugo Reverie Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“We have here very high towers; a man who should fall from one would be dead before he touched the pavement; when… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and… — Victor Hugo Sayings Copy Share Image
“In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance,… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of… — Victor Hugo Execution Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it… — Victor Hugo Brides Copy Share Image
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had… — Victor Hugo Anguish Copy Share Image
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What… — Victor Hugo Believer Copy Share Image
“Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.” — Victor Hugo Memories Copy Share Image
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it… — Victor Hugo Future Copy Share Image
“Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags as in… — Victor Hugo Innocence Copy Share Image
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious… — Victor Hugo Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit;… — Victor Hugo Compromises Copy Share Image
“The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of… — Victor Hugo Bourgeoisie Copy Share Image
“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with… — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“He who has seen the misery of man only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of woman; he who has… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed,… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
“In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and… — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is… — Victor Hugo Abyss Copy Share Image
“Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
