What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
VICTOR HUGOWhat a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
VICTOR HUGOIntelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGOAlmost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
VICTOR HUGOThose who do not weep, do not see.
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 HUGOThe power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
VICTOR HUGOKnowledge is a weight added to conscience.
VICTOR HUGOMelancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGOCertain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
VICTOR HUGOTeach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
VICTOR HUGOLove is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
VICTOR HUGOGo out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
VICTOR HUGOHe never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGOIf the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
VICTOR HUGOLove is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
VICTOR HUGOThere is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO