Quotes from Victor Hugo

Ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od neba, to je unutrašnjost duše.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.

It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?

why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?

Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place.

Yet internally, poverty, the proletariat, wages, education

Sleep in Peace, God is awake.

Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,—that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity.

Les miserables

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

her nose was not handsome— it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,—which drives painters to despair, and charms poets.

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?

The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like

Assim como só nas entranhas da Terra se acham os diamantes, assim somente nas entranhas do pensamento se encontram as verdades.

This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

Phantoms do not wear round hats.

Cosa inaudita a constatarsi, e che risplende nella meravigliosa probità delle nostre rivoluzioni popolari, una certa incorruttibilità risulta dall'idea che è nell'aria di Parigi come il sale è nell'acqua dell'Oceano. Respirando Parigi, si conserva l'anima.

He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.