3 December 2020 Victor Hugo The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
