“People mistake the constellations of the cosmic void for the stars made by ducks' feet in the soft mud of the bog.” — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. — Victor Hugo Communication Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.” — Victor Hugo Injustice Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the… — Victor Hugo Abuse Copy Share Image
“The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look… — Victor Hugo Barber Copy Share Image
“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet… — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the… — Victor Hugo Abyss Copy Share Image
“Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I think of winter, which is nothing but a rift in the firmament through which the winds break loose, the shreds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved… — Victor Hugo Constellations Copy Share Image
“How was Jean Valjean going to conduct himself in the face of Cosette and Marius's happiness? A happiness he himself had wanted,… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself… — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Discipline Copy Share Image
“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man. — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved.” — Victor Hugo Hunger Copy Share Image
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "A man who is making his escape does not cough… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. — Victor Hugo Earth Copy Share Image
“Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.” — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip. — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. — Victor Hugo Battlefields Copy Share Image
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo Altars Copy Share Image
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
