A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Absurd Copy Share Image
“The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is… — Victor Hugo Luck Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one… — Victor Hugo Commit Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the… — Victor Hugo Air Copy Share Image
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,… — Victor Hugo Ideas Copy Share Image
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity... — Victor Hugo Equilibrium Copy Share Image
“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious… — Victor Hugo Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look… — Victor Hugo Gavroche Copy Share Image
“As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night.” — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity. — Victor Hugo Accepting Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“Nema te nesrece koja cak i u najmucnijim casovima ne budi u svojim dubinama odblesak neopisivog radjanja nade.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers;… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Admire Copy Share Image
“The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Fate, with its mysterious and inexorable patience, was slowly bringing together these two beings charged, like thunder-clouds, with electricity, with the latent… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great… — Victor Hugo Century Copy Share Image
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,… — Victor Hugo Bigotry Copy Share Image
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — Victor Hugo Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
“In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. — Victor Hugo Battlefields Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
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