“There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was… — 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
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Woe, alas, to the one who shall have loved bodies, forms, appearances only. Death will take everything from him. Try to love… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and proven, is a woman. A hand… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, live by faith,—we have never been able to think… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious… — 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
