“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain… — Victor Hugo Daydreaming Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than… — Victor Hugo Spirituality Copy Share Image
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“No temamos nunca ni a los ladrones ni a los asesinos: esos son los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Las preocupaciones, esas… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.” — Victor Hugo Bad husband Copy Share Image
“Au-dessus de l'absolu révolutionnaire, il y a l'absolu humain.” — Victor Hugo Humanitarianism Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“These Oscars bore the names, one of Felix Tholomyes, of Toulouse; the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At… — Victor Hugo Garden Copy Share Image
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.” — Victor Hugo Great man Copy Share Image
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever… — Victor Hugo Earth Copy Share Image
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo Ashes Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. — Victor Hugo Adorable Copy Share Image
The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
“But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.” — Victor Hugo Fall Copy Share Image
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the… — Victor Hugo Degrees Copy Share Image
In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes. — Victor Hugo Age Copy Share Image
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon… — Victor Hugo Great passion Copy Share Image
“There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in rags and come from who knows where, were in 1823 exhibiting to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who… — Victor Hugo Friendship Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
“The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed,… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
“Srdžba može biti luda i besmislena; čovjek se može naljutiti i kad nije u pravu; uvrijediti se može kad ima u osnovi… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. — Victor Hugo Eloquence Copy Share Image
“In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much… — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
