Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. — Victor Hugo Charity Copy Share Image
“He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.” — Victor Hugo Confidence Copy Share Image
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie. — Victor Hugo Deceit Copy Share Image
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.” — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must… — Victor Hugo Bread Copy Share Image
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Certain forms are torn down, and it is well that they should be, but on condition that they are followed by reconstruction.” — Victor Hugo Reconstruction Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Battlefields Copy Share Image
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at… — Victor Hugo Light 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
“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
“She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless.… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a… — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long… — Victor Hugo Feelings Copy Share Image
“You have to be used to the twists of fate and being caught up in them to dare lift your eyes when… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right.… — Victor Hugo Honor Copy Share Image
“So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
