“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.” — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo Desire Copy Share Image
“Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.” — Victor Hugo Condemnation Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing? — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.” — Victor Hugo Blue sky Copy Share Image
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.” — Victor Hugo Intelligence Copy Share Image
“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It… — Victor Hugo Approach Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet… — Victor Hugo Behavior Copy Share Image
“The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream of the angel. All which is… — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
“The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular… — Victor Hugo King 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
“WHEN any extraordinary events, unexpected anxieties or catastrophes, intrude themselves suddenly into a life up to that period peaceful and happy, these… — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
“Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell… — Victor Hugo Human consciousness Copy Share Image
“He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like… — Victor Hugo April Copy Share Image
“Biassou raised his hand, and as if by enchantment the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“That night, before going to bed, he went on to say, 'Never be afraid of thieves and murderers. They represent the dangers… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
“To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but… — Victor Hugo Integrity Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Aesthetics Copy Share Image
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. — Victor Hugo Doctors Copy Share Image
“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.” — Victor Hugo Hate Copy Share Image
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.) — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.” — Victor Hugo Evil within Copy Share Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” — Victor Hugo Friendship Copy Share Image
“Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.” — Victor Hugo Deprive Copy Share Image
“She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?” — Victor Hugo Shadow Copy Share Image
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
