Victor Hugo Quotes
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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France lost a great novel last night.