“You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What astonished me greatly was, that though he believed that he was under sentence of death, he made no effort to avail… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)” — 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
