Spira, spera.
(breathe, hope)
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;<...
SWEDISH PROVERB Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabre...
BRIAN SELZNICK Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.
NED VIZZINI The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds.
Hugo?" L...
CASSANDRA CLARE When life decides to surprise you,
When your own judgement defies you,
When logic and re...
DRISHTI BABLANI One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
SANOBER KHAN Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
...
SRI CHINMOY Mine," he whispers.
"Yours," I breathe.
E.L. JAMES The most incredible architecture
Is the architecture of Self,
which is ever changing, evol...
ALLAN RUFUS Just because
you feel lost
doesn't mean
that you are.
Sometimes you
just ha...
LALAH DELIA If we are not empty, we become a block of matter.
We cannot breathe, we cannot think.
To be ...
THICH NHAT HANH Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you rea...
BRIAN SELZNICK During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO He then kissed her.
It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked...
EVA IBBOTSON That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"
Which was about all he seemed to have. H...
STEPHEN FRY Oh, my father, such a difficult man.
His world turned on his axis.
From "The Father ...
EILEEN GRANFORS Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibi...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You're not celibate, then?" I breathe.
Amusement lights up his eyes.
"No, Anastasia, I'm ...
E.L. JAMES Your omnipresence is marvellous!
I breathe and you enter me.
I exhale and enter into you.
KAMAND KOJOURI Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill yo...
KELLEY YORK Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging o...
RICHELLE MEAD May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea
drifting in
thr...
SANOBER KHAN How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How t...
MATT HAIG Oracle of Delphi Speaks:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD I can't let you walk away.
Your sadness is suffocating me.
I can't breathe.
The pai...
A.C. BEXTOR If you like someone, you wish them well.
But.
If you love someone, you breathe wellness in...
SIMA MITTAL I breathe in...
the fragrance
of love, and moist sand
the one
his roses left
SANOBER KHAN Never ever have any doubt on yourself. You are the priceless species in this world.
Don't under...
SANTOSH ADBHUT KUMAR DUMBLEDORE: [...] To suffer is as human as to breathe.
HARRY: You said that to me once be...
JACK THORNE The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide ...
LEO BABAUTA Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO Let me breathe You in,
Let me taste the meaning of sublime;
Let my soul mingle with You, NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Love is a luxury."
"No. Love is an element."
An element. Like air to breathe, earth to sta...
LAINI TAYLOR CIRCLES OF LIFE
Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops...
SUZY KASSEM ―Self-righteousness,- Victor said. But when Sydney looked confused, he added, ―He heals. It‘s ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB That moment when this heart.. stops.. almost as if it never existed.
When every.. breathe.. slo...
HAFSA SHAH Look innocent. Have hope.”
“Okay.”
“And remember…”
“What?”
�...
KENNETH EADE To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of la...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ
ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story...
RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes,
all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before<...
WILLIAM C. HANNAN Love, the exotic bird,
came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI Thus repulsed, our final hope
Is flat despair: we must exasperate
The Almighty Victor to s...
JOHN MILTON Am I the reason you breathe
Or am I the reason you cry?
SALIVA Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
EMMA LAZARUS In that last dance of chances
I shall partner you no more.
I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB Hope drowned in shadows
emerges fiercely splendid––
boldly angelic.
ABERJHANI No need for false hope...
...
So far where I am now... is nowhere done... just...
DEYTH BANGER What hope is here for modern rhyme
To him, who turns a musing eye
On songs, and deeds, and...
ALFRED TENNYSON The key is love
It is the gateway
To hope
To joy
To enhanced living
Love is...
KAREN HACKEL i hope that
whoever you are
wherever you are
and no matter how
you are feeling SANOBER KHAN I hope your heart feels better.
I hope your mind is set right.
I hope your love is conne...
SHAILEE J-N To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO When there is silence,
Give your voice.
When there is darkness,
Shine your light. ...
TIM FARGO Over the boundary of time,
Hope transcends,
Desire sings,
One verse,
One song, DEBASISH MRIDHA Where humanity
sowed faith, hope, and unity,
joy’s garden blossomed.
ABERJHANI If you can't Change yourself,
Don't Hope that other Will.
FAHAD RASHIQ Love without hope will not survive.
Love without faith changes nothing.
Love gives power t...
TOBA BETA Hope. Hope that something beautiful may come from this tragic story.
Fear. Fear that it won’t...
K.A. TUCKER Sentinels of trees
breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh
As their mighty arms reach to...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD We dream our lives. But the rivers breathe flint
and spark
and, each night, we believe in ...
RENEE ASHLEY ...I've been with you all day.
I'm trying to stay calm.
I'm impatient and it's really hard...
SLIPKNOT We're more organized this year. Last year we didn't know who was the head coach until the last minut...
REBECCA DAVIS Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is...
KAMAND KOJOURI Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS In battle or business, whatever the game,
In law or in love, it is ever the same;
In the str...
JOHN GODFREY SAXE they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY I hope you nail the bastard.”
So does he.
NENIA CAMPBELL Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?
Let me hear you BREATHE
Let me watch as you slee...
SLIPKNOT It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my...
ASHLEY EARLEY I am trapped in my skin, it itches, and is so hollow.
I cant breathe.
GEORIGANA live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other
-Lady Gaga via twitter
LADY GAGA Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Joy gives you strength.
Hope gives you fortitude.
Faith gives you courage.
Love gives...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Give me one more night to taste the dark
When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark
Let those ...
MUNIA KHAN She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid...
LISA KLEYPAS Trust too much
Hope too much
Love way too much
Take the pain.
Because regret hur...
JAMIE HOLT SHERFY
More Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
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...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...
VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
VICTOR HUGO It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
VICTOR HUGO What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO