When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself...” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To love or have loved is enough. Don't ask for anything more. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right.… — 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
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for oureselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — 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
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair. — 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
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
