“So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself,… — Victor Hugo Dear love Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — Victor Hugo Anguish Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Amity Copy Share Image
“Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit… — Victor Hugo Good man Copy Share Image
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. . . . You ask why I speak? I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In that sequence, O and P are inseparable. You… — Victor Hugo Admiration Copy Share Image
“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Antiquity Copy Share Image
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes… — Victor Hugo Flesh Copy Share Image
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother:… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo Imagination Copy Share Image
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. — Victor Hugo Diamond Copy Share Image
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it. — Victor Hugo Firsts Copy Share Image
“There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
“I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow.… — Victor Hugo Truth Copy Share Image
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be… — Victor Hugo Brilliant 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
