Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Each time that he uttered the word sir, in his voice which was so gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us say in passing, to be blind and to be loved, is in fact--on this earth where nothing is complete--one of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I have repented of the evil that I have done and have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. — 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
