“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.” — Victor Hugo Imagination Copy Share Image
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. — Victor Hugo Anxiety Copy Share Image
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. — Victor Hugo Eternal Copy Share Image
“There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.” — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,—these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are… — Victor Hugo Abyss Copy Share Image
“Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so… — Victor Hugo Husband and wife Copy Share Image
“It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.” — Victor Hugo Abuse Copy Share Image
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty… — Victor Hugo Duty Copy Share Image
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he… — Victor Hugo Bored Copy Share Image
“You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.” — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
“I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A minute afterwards he appeared upon the upper platform, still bearing the gipsy [sic] in his arms, still running wildly along, still… — Victor Hugo Notre dame Copy Share Image
“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal,… — Victor Hugo Crisis Copy Share Image
“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Despots Copy Share Image
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,… — Victor Hugo Business Copy Share Image
“In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow… — Victor Hugo Democracy Copy Share Image
“These Oscars bore the names, one of Felix Tholomyes, of Toulouse; the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips. — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Charm Copy Share Image
“A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo Past Copy Share Image
“Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?” — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. — Victor Hugo Congress Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.” — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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