Quotes from Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself...

It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought;

Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for the night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than anyone.

When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old.

Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At

you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Ser-se canhoto é circunstância digna de inveja

That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader.

Though poor, he had succeeded in gathering together, through patience, self-denial, and time, a valuable collection of rare volumes of every genre. He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Love is life, if it is not death.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.

Do you want a priest? I have one. answered Jean Valjean.

Ystäväni, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempää huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiäkään. On vain huonoja viljelijöitä. (Jean Valjean)

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.

La suprema felicità della vita è la constatazione d'essere amato, e amato per se stesso; anzi diciamo meglio, malgrado se stesso.

He sleeps, though fate for him was truly odd. He lived. He died when his angel was gone. The thing just happened of its own accord As night comes on when day is gone.

Ninguém poderá impedir o pensamento de voltar a uma ideia, como não podemos impedir o mar de voltar sempre a uma praia. Para o marinheiro isso se chama maré; para o culpado isso se chama remorso. Deus agita a alma como agita o oceano.

His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

Un prete opulento è un controsenso. Il prete deve tenersi vicino al povero.

she imagined that her mother's soul had passed into this good man and had come to live close by her.

A clock does not stop at the very moment you lose the key.