A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“People mistake the constellations of the cosmic void for the stars made by ducks' feet in the soft mud of the bog.” — Victor Hugo 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 Copy Share Image
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The science of mathematics applies to the clouds; the radiance of starlight nourishes the rose; no thinker will dare say that the… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — 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 for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
