“One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.” — Victor Hugo Lightning Copy Share Image
“the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.” — Victor Hugo North wind Copy Share Image
“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a” — Victor Hugo Affirmation Copy Share Image
“Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.” — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it… — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
“When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body… — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“Kažu da je ropstvo iščezlo iz evropske civilizacije. Zabluda je to. On još uvijek postoji, ali sada tlači samo ženu i zove… — Victor Hugo Zena Copy Share Image
“I encountered in the street a penniless young man who was in love. His hat was old and his jacket worn, with… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor… — Victor Hugo Language Copy Share Image
“The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived.” — Victor Hugo Protest Copy Share Image
“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that… — Victor Hugo Existentialism Copy Share Image
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,… — Victor Hugo Anarchist Copy Share Image
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and… — Victor Hugo Brilliant Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“had imbibed a prejudice against my uncle’s favorite slave. There was something crawling in his servility; for though outdoor slavery does not… — Victor Hugo Slave Copy Share Image
“Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up… — Victor Hugo Adversity Copy Share Image
“It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politeness, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
