“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Light Copy Share Image
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United… — Victor Hugo Continental Copy Share Image
“No tratar con la gente permite atribuirle todas las perfecciones” — Victor Hugo Los-miserables Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Contrast Copy Share Image
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman… — Victor Hugo Blessed Copy Share Image
“But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are… — 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 Appetite Copy Share Image
“Mes amis, retenez ceci, il n’y a ni mauvaises herbes ni mauvais hommes. Il n’y a que de mauvais cultivateurs.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“To such atrocities may men be driven who use the dagger for a cross, and upon whose mind the most trivial event… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human… — Victor Hugo Believe Copy Share Image
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. — Victor Hugo Murderer Copy Share Image
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. — Victor Hugo Hardest Copy Share Image
“Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am… — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
“The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.” — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over… — Victor Hugo Integrity Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. — Victor Hugo Congress Copy Share Image
“Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.” — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
