“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Contradiction Copy Share Image
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo Consolation Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.” — Victor Hugo Opinions Copy Share Image
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. — Victor Hugo Carnival Copy Share Image
“Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.” — Victor Hugo Corruption Copy Share Image
“what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.” — Victor Hugo Hell Copy Share Image
“Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.” — Victor Hugo Good god Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.” — Victor Hugo Fortress Menaced 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing. All corners of the earth are exactly the same. And anywhere… — Victor Hugo Exile Copy Share Image
“He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.” — 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 Compromises Copy Share Image
“We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black… — Victor Hugo Destiny 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 Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.” — Victor Hugo Memory Copy Share Image
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that… — Victor Hugo Enough Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
“He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy,… — Victor Hugo Hating Copy Share Image
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You… — Victor Hugo Able Copy Share Image
“This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no… — Victor Hugo Human race Copy Share Image
“Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes… — Victor Hugo La vie Copy Share Image
“Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras,… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose… — Victor Hugo Kiss Copy Share Image