“Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word… — Victor Hugo Spirituality Copy Share Image
“The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.” — Victor Hugo Les-miserables Copy Share Image
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before… — Victor Hugo Body Copy Share Image
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. — Victor Hugo France Copy Share Image
“Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.” — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only,"… — Victor Hugo Bravery Copy Share Image
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is… — Victor Hugo Cutting Copy Share Image
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. — Victor Hugo Earth Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Disease Copy Share Image
Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In… — Victor Hugo Balance Copy Share Image
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo Ants Copy Share Image
“What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty,… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Birth Copy Share Image
“He had but one consolation, that she had loved him, that her eyes had told him so, that although she did not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their… — Victor Hugo Charity Copy Share Image
“At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.” — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.” — Victor Hugo Knowledge Copy Share Image
