One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Kada si u najvecim mukama i kada ti se dusa grci od bola,kada se ne zna da li si ziv ili mrtav,ipak… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Eponine e Azelma não davam pela sua presença. Era para elas como um cachorro. As três meninas juntas não somavam 24 anos… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man,… — Victor Hugo Civilisation Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or… — Victor Hugo Ignorance Copy Share Image
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am… — Victor Hugo Choice Copy Share Image
“if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would… — Victor Hugo Neighbor Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the… — Victor Hugo Advent Copy Share Image
“Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at… — Victor Hugo Convent Copy Share Image
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old,… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and… — Victor Hugo Facts Copy Share Image
“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!” — Victor Hugo Contemplation Copy Share Image
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and… — Victor Hugo Crime Copy Share Image
“There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They… — Victor Hugo Angels Copy Share Image
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
“Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo Butterfly Copy Share Image
“The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of… — Victor Hugo Infinite space Copy Share Image
“He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Abandonment Copy Share Image
“In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped… — Victor Hugo Liberty Copy Share Image
“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Pobegli snovi ne ostavljaju trag kao ni rasturena magla,a kad oblak prodje,ljubav nije nista manja u srcu,kao sto nije ni sunce na… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.” — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most,… — Victor Hugo Anxiety Copy Share Image
