“Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.” — Victor Hugo Consent Copy Share Image
“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.” — Victor Hugo Hell Copy Share Image
A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Armies Copy Share Image
“The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.” — Victor Hugo Memory Copy Share Image
“To such atrocities may men be driven who use the dagger for a cross, and upon whose mind the most trivial event… — Victor Hugo Dagger Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than… — Victor Hugo Profound Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil;… — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Srdžba može biti luda i besmislena; čovjek se može naljutiti i kad nije u pravu; uvrijediti se može kad ima u osnovi… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left… — Victor Hugo Body Copy Share Image
“I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow.… — Victor Hugo Truth Copy Share Image
“Death has but few terrors for the crushed and broken spirit; but how heavy and icy is his hand when it grasps… — Victor Hugo Broken spirit Copy Share Image
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile… — Victor Hugo Smile Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
