“There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery… — Victor Hugo Mystery Copy Share Image
“Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All… — Victor Hugo Angels Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself...” — Victor Hugo Confidence Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Atheism Copy Share Image
“A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and… — Victor Hugo Respect Copy Share Image
A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall… — Victor Hugo America Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Approach Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Absurd Copy Share Image
“One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the… — Victor Hugo Ocean Copy Share Image
“Poor old Jean Valjean, of course, loved Cosette only as a father; but, as we noted earlier, into this fatherly love his… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“one felt the sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the leaves, by night the leaves… — Victor Hugo Romance Copy Share Image
“A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have… — Victor Hugo Animals Copy Share Image
“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one… — Victor Hugo Heroic Copy Share Image
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for… — Victor Hugo Bread Copy Share Image
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Excess Copy Share Image
“With just the ‘Carmagnole’ to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the ‘Marseillaise’ and he will liberate the… — Victor Hugo Louis Xvi Copy Share Image
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
“in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a… — Victor Hugo Criminal law Copy Share Image
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Convention promulgated this great axiom: "The liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins," which comprises in… — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
“He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing. All corners of the earth are exactly the same. And anywhere… — Victor Hugo Exile Copy Share Image
“He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. He alone who denounces the success… — Victor Hugo Adversity Copy Share Image
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of… — Victor Hugo Cannonballs Copy Share Image
“To love or have loved is enough. Don't ask for anything more. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
The power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real… — Victor Hugo Beginning Copy Share Image
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by… — Victor Hugo Borders Copy Share Image
