“Čovjek nije krug s jednim jedinim središtem; on je elipsa s dvije žiže. Činjenice su jedna, a ideje druga.” — Victor Hugo Covjek Copy Share Image
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo Language Copy Share Image
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. — Victor Hugo Convict Copy Share Image
“The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo Ants Copy Share Image
“The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track. — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.… — Victor Hugo Prejudice Copy Share Image
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates… — Victor Hugo Limits Copy Share Image
“Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and… — Victor Hugo Desire Copy Share Image
“They were fighting for your dog. But when Rask caught sight of me, he gave such a bound that the rope broke,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in… — Victor Hugo Government Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid… — Victor Hugo Divine destiny Copy Share Image
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — Victor Hugo Contemplation Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
“Postoji razlika koja odvaja anđela s labudovim krilima od anđela s orlovskim krilima.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.” — Victor Hugo Deliverance Copy Share Image
“Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.” — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
“In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.” — Victor Hugo Evil man Copy Share Image
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Motive Copy Share Image
“Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.” — Victor Hugo Disintegrate Copy Share Image
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo Falsehood Copy Share Image
“One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven.” — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come” — Victor Hugo Inspirational Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Contradiction Copy Share Image
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo Consolation Copy Share Image
“The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.” — Victor Hugo Elephant Copy Share Image
