In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“When a great figure passed through a city of Burgundy or Champagne, the corporation of the city turned out to deliver an… — Victor Hugo Humor Copy Share Image
“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” — Victor Hugo Common sense Copy Share Image
“It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Be Copy Share Image
“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo 17th century Copy Share Image
“While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen,… — Victor Hugo Notre dame Copy Share Image
“Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.” — Victor Hugo Condemnation Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.” — Victor Hugo Imagination Copy Share Image
“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.” — Victor Hugo Bishops Copy Share Image
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing… — Victor Hugo Admirable Copy Share Image
“It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities.” — Víctor Hugo 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
A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII… — Victor Hugo Chapters Copy Share Image
“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. — Victor Hugo Century Copy Share Image
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to… — Victor Hugo Difficult Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
