Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. — Victor Hugo Desire Copy Share Image
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. — Victor Hugo Clock Copy Share Image
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it. — Victor Hugo Advancement Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.” — Victor Hugo Demolishing Copy Share Image
The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head. — Victor Hugo Excellent Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Causes Copy Share Image
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was… — Victor Hugo Goodness Copy Share Image
A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“In 1804, M. Myriel was the Cure of B—— [Brignolles]. He was already advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner.” — Victor Hugo Years Lived Copy Share Image
“Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human… — Victor Hugo Human body Copy Share Image
“She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a… — Victor Hugo Cosette Copy Share Image
Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both… — Victor Hugo Air Copy Share Image
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime,… — Victor Hugo Doe Copy Share Image
“You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not… — Victor Hugo Christ Copy Share Image
“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least… — Victor Hugo French literature 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
“Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely… — Victor Hugo Incomplete Copy Share Image
“What can be the meaning of what has since happened? The turnkey on duty came into my cell; he took off his… — Victor Hugo Happened Copy Share Image
“Marius made a movement. 'Oh, don't go!' she said. 'It won't be long.' She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“Darkness makes the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day feels his heart chilled. When the eye… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; the supreme mass does not depend… — Victor Hugo Earth Copy Share Image
“We were happy and powerful. But the Europeans came to our country; it was from them that I learned the accomplishments which… — Victor Hugo Family together Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is washed with daylight, I will leave. You see, I know that you wait for… — Victor Hugo Flowers Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image