Reality in strong doses frightens.
VICTOR HUGOReality in strong doses frightens.
VICTOR HUGOThere is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
VICTOR HUGOVirtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGOThe pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
VICTOR HUGOConscience is God present in man.
VICTOR HUGOTo die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
VICTOR HUGOInspiration and genius – one and the same.
VICTOR HUGOLaughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGOLove is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
VICTOR HUGOPeople do not lack strength, they lack will.
VICTOR HUGOThere is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGONobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
VICTOR HUGODoing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGOHe who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
VICTOR HUGOMen hate those to whom they have to lie.
VICTOR HUGODiamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
VICTOR HUGO