“When the nettle is young, the leaves make excellent greens; when it grows old it has filaments and fibers like hemp and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the defeated. Hatred… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards the Saint Jean market.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As for us, we who do not believe what these women believe, but live like them by faith, never could look without… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard-table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set… — Victor Hugo 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 Copy Share Image
“There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.” — 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
