This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man. — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved.” — Victor Hugo Hunger Copy Share Image
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic,… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the… — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two… — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun;… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was… — Victor Hugo Time Copy Share Image
“He had but one consolation, that she had loved him, that her eyes had told him so, that although she did not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To be granite and to doubt! To be the statue of Chastisement cast in one piece in the mould of the law,… — Victor Hugo Chastisement Copy Share Image
“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to… — Victor Hugo Napoleon Copy Share Image
“Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The four walls of the living redoubt had fallen, hardly could a quivering be detected here and there among the corpses; and… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
