“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
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is… — Victor Hugo Dignity 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
“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the… — Victor Hugo Eating Copy Share Image
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who… — Victor Hugo Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Agony Copy Share Image
“The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea. The towns make men ferocious because… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She… — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“The aim to which I have aspired for so many years, my nightly dream, the object of my prayers in heaven, Security-… — Victor Hugo Dreams 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
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I… — Victor Hugo Cry Copy Share Image
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension… — Victor Hugo Cosette 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
“there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had… — Victor Hugo Anguish Copy Share Image
“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We have here very high towers; a man who should fall from one would be dead before he touched the pavement; when… — Victor Hugo Love 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
“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the… — Victor Hugo Revolution Copy Share Image
Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of… — Victor Hugo Girl Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.” — Victor Hugo Reverie Copy Share Image
“You are risking your life!" "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in the world to… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“He had, like everyone else, his suffix ist, without which nobody could have lived in those days, but he was neither a… — Victor Hugo Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Ne može se spriječiti misao da se vrati samoj sebi, kao što se ne može spriječiti more da se vrati obali. Za… — Victor Hugo Bog Copy Share Image
“fortunately or unfortunately, man is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and physically, without dying; that it… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you;… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
“Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their… — Victor Hugo Greatness Copy Share Image