Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
“You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.” — Victor Hugo Heaven Copy Share Image
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. — Victor Hugo Blind Copy Share Image
“A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.” — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. — Victor Hugo Affair Copy Share Image
“in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a… — Victor Hugo Criminal law Copy Share Image
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".” — victor hugo Nature Copy Share Image
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is… — Victor Hugo Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of… — Victor Hugo Breath Copy Share Image
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like… — Victor Hugo Audacity Copy Share Image
“In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Well,” said he, “what are you thinking of?” “I am thinking,” said I, “that I shall be past thinking, this evening.” “Oh,… — Victor Hugo Last day Copy Share Image
“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no… — Victor Hugo Future Copy Share Image
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am… — Victor Hugo Choice Copy Share Image
“if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would… — Victor Hugo Neighbor Copy Share Image
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
