Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo Events Copy Share Image
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black… — Victor Hugo Aprons Copy Share Image
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. — Victor Hugo Doe Copy Share Image
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they… — Victor Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.” — Victor Hugo Hot air Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Hero Copy Share Image
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
“In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.” — Victor Hugo Quicksand Copy Share Image
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake-let us say rather in… — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can… — Victor Hugo Command Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.” — Victor Hugo Grantaire Copy Share Image
“Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be… — Victor Hugo True or false Copy Share Image
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were… — Victor Hugo Bows Copy Share Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea,… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
“He did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the whole, for these petty contradictions of… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece… — Victor Hugo Accounts 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 Certain Copy Share Image
