“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
“when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. — 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
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. — 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
“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.” — 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
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of… — 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
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Les Miserables is first of all the product of a varied experience of the world, containing the perceptions of an entire life.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — 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
