“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.) — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — 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
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — 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
“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If mankind is to advance there must be installed permanently at the head of its columns proud instances of courage. Acts of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it… — 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
