Victor Hugo Quotes
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?
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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.