“Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and… — 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
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course… — 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
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — 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
“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — 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
