When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope! — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is… — 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
