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
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
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority. — Victor Hugo Clothes Copy Share Image
“Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.” — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps — Victor Hugo Ecstasy Copy Share Image
“Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...” — Victor Hugo Sexism 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
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
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal… — Victor Hugo Claude-frollo Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated… — Victor Hugo Human race Copy Share Image
“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers… — Victor Hugo Improvisation 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
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed… — Victor Hugo Benevolent 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 Think Winter Copy Share Image
“How was Jean Valjean going to conduct himself in the face of Cosette and Marius's happiness? A happiness he himself had wanted,… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself… — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved… — Victor Hugo Constellations Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
“See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.” — Victor Hugo Buying Pennyworth Copy Share Image
