“Indeed, what more could you want? A little garden to amble about in, and infinite space to dream in. At his feet,… — Victor Hugo Garden Copy Share Image
“You have to be used to the twists of fate and being caught up in them to dare lift your eyes when… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long… — Victor Hugo Feelings Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable.… — Victor Hugo Duty Copy Share Image
“So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right.… — Victor Hugo Honor Copy Share Image
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate… — Victor Hugo Conflict Copy Share Image
“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies,… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,… — Victor Hugo Coffins Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was… — Victor Hugo Misery Copy Share Image
“She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless.… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Hatred Copy Share Image
“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a… — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford… — Victor Hugo Christianity Copy Share Image
“He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored.… — Victor Hugo Good health Copy Share Image
“Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch… — Victor Hugo Class struggle Copy Share Image
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night.… — Victor Hugo Dawn Copy Share Image
“Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can… — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'… — Victor Hugo Appetite Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must… — Victor Hugo Atheism Copy Share Image
“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the… — Victor Hugo Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— "Have a care of… — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially… — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“Marius made a movement. 'Oh, don't go!' she said. 'It won't be long.' She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“What can be the meaning of what has since happened? The turnkey on duty came into my cell; he took off his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Don't you recognize me?' 'No.' 'Eponine.' Marius bent hastily forward and saw that it was indeed that unhappy girl, clad in a… — Victor Hugo Wounded Copy Share Image
“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
