Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. — Victor Hugo Deeds Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Absurd Copy Share Image
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority. — Victor Hugo Clothes Copy Share Image
“Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.” — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. — Victor Hugo Blessed Copy Share Image
“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.” — Victor Hugo Misfortune Copy Share Image
“He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the fault has passed.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers… — Victor Hugo Improvisation Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated… — Victor Hugo Human race Copy Share Image
“Can the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, as the vertebral column… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth… — Victor Hugo Heaven Copy Share Image
“Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.” — Victor Hugo Bitterness Copy Share Image
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends… — Victor Hugo Destruction Copy Share Image
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the… — Victor Hugo Christ Copy Share Image
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For… — Victor Hugo Awakening Copy Share Image
“I had the opportunity in this visit of seeing how great a power the master exercises over his slaves, but at the… — Victor Hugo Slaves Copy Share Image
“For with love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma,… — Victor Hugo Human heart Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Ancient Copy Share Image
There must be people who pray even for those who never pray. — Victor Hugo Inspirational Copy Share Image
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps — Victor Hugo Ecstasy Copy Share Image
“It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.” — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.” — Victor Hugo Innovation Copy Share Image
“He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, its boldness. — Victor Hugo Boldness Copy Share Image
“Nema te nesrece koja cak i u najmucnijim casovima ne budi u svojim dubinama odblesak neopisivog radjanja nade.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“Najveća sreća života je ubeđenje da smo voljeni zbog nas samih, ili još bolje, uprkos nas samih.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. — Victor Hugo Beloved Copy Share Image
