Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. — Victor Hugo Rights Copy Share Image
“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and… — Victor Hugo Facts Copy Share Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo Careless Copy Share Image
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. — Victor Hugo Animal 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
“When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.” — Victor Hugo Passion Copy Share Image
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and… — Victor Hugo Misfortunes Copy Share Image
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
“Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human… — Victor Hugo Human body Copy Share Image
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! — Victor Hugo Death penalty Copy Share Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its… — Victor Hugo Absent Copy Share Image
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
