“She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved.” — Victor Hugo Hunger Copy Share Image
“He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.” — Victor Hugo Doubted Copy Share Image
“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.” — Victor Hugo Innovation Copy Share Image
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, its boldness. — Victor Hugo Boldness Copy Share Image
“What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic,… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother… — Victor Hugo Believe Copy Share Image
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two… — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun;… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the… — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all… — Victor Hugo Accepted Copy Share Image
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it… — Victor Hugo Dictators Copy Share Image
“No temamos nunca a los ladrones ni a los asesinos; éstos no son más que los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Temámonos… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“To be granite and to doubt! To be the statue of Chastisement cast in one piece in the mould of the law,… — Victor Hugo Chastisement Copy Share Image
“The four walls of the living redoubt had fallen, hardly could a quivering be detected here and there among the corpses; and… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“They set fire to all the plantations, and massacred the colonists with the most unheard-of barbarities. By one single detail I can… — Victor Hugo Massacred Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Ancient Copy Share Image
“Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.” — Victor Hugo Arranging things Copy Share Image
