If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOWhat Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
VICTOR HUGOThe soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGOThere is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGONothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
VICTOR HUGOA garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
VICTOR HUGOWhen a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGOIntelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGOTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
VICTOR HUGOWhen love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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 HUGOLove has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
VICTOR HUGOHe who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
VICTOR HUGOThose who do not weep, do not see.
VICTOR HUGONot being heard is no reason for silence.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGO