“Nema te nesrece koja cak i u najmucnijim casovima ne budi u svojim dubinama odblesak neopisivog radjanja nade.” — Victor Hugo Toga 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
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Absurd 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
“It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.” — Victor Hugo Book 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
“Can the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, as the vertebral column… — Victor Hugo Unhappiness Vertebral 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
“He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the fault has passed.” — Victor Hugo Fault Copy Share Image
“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.” — Victor Hugo Misfortune 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 Barber 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
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.” — Victor Hugo Buying Pennyworth Copy Share Image
