To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Absurd Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Approach Copy Share Image
“Poor old Jean Valjean, of course, loved Cosette only as a father; but, as we noted earlier, into this fatherly love his… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Boundaries Copy Share Image
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and… — Victor Hugo Sayings Copy Share Image
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken… — Victor Hugo Good intentions Copy Share Image
“In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of… — Victor Hugo Execution Copy Share Image
“He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance,… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which that which is pitiless—that is to say, that which is brutalizing—predominates, is to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What a transfiguration it is to love! And the little shrieks, the pursuits in the grass, the waists encircled by stealth, the… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
“You asked me why I saved you. You have forgotten a villain who tried to carry you off one night,- a villain… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Oh, you who are! "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments… — Victor Hugo Attention Copy Share Image
“If anything is terrifying, if there is a reality that surpasses dream, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to… — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he… — Victor Hugo Blunders Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it… — Victor Hugo Divine Copy Share Image
“With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is… — Victor Hugo Bad people Copy Share Image
“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with… — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“Some odd things were found; among other things the skeleton of an ourang-outang which disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which… — Victor Hugo Ignorance Copy Share Image
“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in… — Victor Hugo Early morning Copy Share Image
“The poor fugitive had exchanged his reindeer-skin garments for a full suit of black, left at the Spladgest by a famous Throndhjem… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their… — Victor Hugo Charity Copy Share Image
“In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures… — Victor Hugo First place Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
