Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
VICTOR HUGOLet us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
VICTOR HUGOThe power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
VICTOR HUGOFreedom begins where it ends ignorance.
VICTOR HUGODoing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGOYou who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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 HUGOInitiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGOLaughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGOLove is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
VICTOR HUGOIf I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
VICTOR HUGOInspiration and genius – one and the same.
VICTOR HUGOThe greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
VICTOR HUGOLove is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
VICTOR HUGONothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
VICTOR HUGOA man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGOTo love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO