“God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.” — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
“Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry” — Victor Hugo Egotism Copy Share Image
“As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be… — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for oureselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track. — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Why was I not made of stone like thee? --Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off… — Victor Hugo Gargoyle Copy Share Image
“Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.… — Victor Hugo Prejudice Copy Share Image
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with… — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
“Oh, you who are! "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments… — Victor Hugo Attention Copy Share Image
“If anything is terrifying, if there is a reality that surpasses dream, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to… — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“You asked me why I saved you. You have forgotten a villain who tried to carry you off one night,- a villain… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates… — Victor Hugo Limits Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness,… — Victor Hugo Adventure Copy Share Image
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a… — Victor Hugo Anger management Copy Share Image
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and… — Victor Hugo Battle Copy Share Image
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled,… — Victor Hugo Growth Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Babylon Copy Share Image
“There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his… — Victor Hugo Misery Copy Share Image
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is… — Victor Hugo Necessity Copy Share Image
“Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Birth Copy Share Image
“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that… — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
“her nose was not handsome— it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that… — Victor Hugo Artist Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : "?" The publisher's response: "!" ” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect… — Victor Hugo Absurd Copy Share Image
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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