The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Charm Copy Share Image
“Geniuses are disconcerting. Their comings and goings in the ideal world give one vertigo . . . . They have a telescope… — Victor Hugo Geniuses Copy Share Image
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo Drama 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
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is… — Victor Hugo Bends in the road Copy Share Image
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo Civilization Copy Share Image
“No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. — Victor Hugo Civilization Copy Share Image
“Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Accomplished Copy Share Image
“I think of winter, which is nothing but a rift in the firmament through which the winds break loose, the shreds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Answers Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. — Victor Hugo Good way Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Babylon Copy Share Image
“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.” — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a… — Victor Hugo Les-miserables Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself...” — Victor Hugo Confidence Copy Share Image
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Athenians Copy Share Image
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he… — Victor Hugo Hell Copy Share Image
“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?” — Victor Hugo Light Copy Share Image
“At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth… — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Come Copy Share Image
“He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even… — Victor Hugo Aspiration Copy Share Image
“He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Better than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo Time Copy Share Image
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“In short, between men and women you want..." "Equality." "Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures." "I… — Victor Hugo Equality Copy Share Image
“when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“The victory of humanity over man. Humanity had conquered the inhuman. And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome… — Victor Hugo Being human Copy Share Image
“Demain, dès l’aube Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends. J’irai par… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
