The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — Victor Hugo Contemplation Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Civilization Copy Share Image
“It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in… — Victor Hugo Government Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid… — Victor Hugo Divine destiny Copy Share Image
“She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and… — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Abasement Copy Share Image
“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
“Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and… — Victor Hugo Desire Copy Share Image
“They were fighting for your dog. But when Rask caught sight of me, he gave such a bound that the rope broke,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest… — Victor Hugo Good men Copy Share Image
“The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our… — Victor Hugo Break ups Copy Share Image
“have kitchens, who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who strut about, a lackey before, a lackey… — Victor Hugo Positive Copy Share Image
“We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not forget that you have a chamber here,… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose… — Victor Hugo Kiss Copy Share Image
“But as the holy commandments forbid you to strike your father, abstain from doing so; but in the day of battle what… — Victor Hugo Parenting Copy Share Image
Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes… — Victor Hugo La vie Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.… — Victor Hugo Human race Copy Share Image
“Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras,… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective.… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Well,” said he, “what are you thinking of?” “I am thinking,” said I, “that I shall be past thinking, this evening.” “Oh,… — Victor Hugo Last day Copy Share Image
“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no… — Victor Hugo Future Copy Share Image
“In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am… — Victor Hugo Choice Copy Share Image
“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would… — Victor Hugo Neighbor Copy Share Image
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an impression with which the modern one can no longer furnish you,… — Victor Hugo Beyond the horizon Copy Share Image
“This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
