“See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.” — Victor Hugo Buying Pennyworth Copy Share Image
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. — Victor Hugo Free thought Copy Share Image
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo Events Copy Share Image
“The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.” — Victor Hugo Memory Copy Share Image
“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.” — Victor Hugo Hell Copy Share Image
“Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.” — Victor Hugo Argot Copy Share Image
“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.” — Victor Hugo Dead Copy Share Image
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.” — Victor Hugo Success Copy Share Image
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one… — Victor Hugo Blind Copy Share Image
At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire… — Victor Hugo Burning Copy Share Image
“and if you fall as Lucifer fell, you fall in flames! And so it must be, for so it is written on… — Victor Hugo Lucifer Copy Share Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its… — Victor Hugo Absent Copy Share Image
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears… — Victor Hugo Blood Copy Share Image
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet… — Victor Hugo Flight Copy Share Image
“A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him:… — Victor Hugo Bishop Copy Share Image
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare… The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before… — Victor Hugo Bible Copy Share Image
“Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation… — Victor Hugo Conquer the world Copy Share Image
“Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun,… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent… — Victor Hugo Th Of July Copy Share Image
“In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he… — Victor Hugo Philosophy of life Copy Share Image
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and… — Victor Hugo Attributes Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
