1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

I think, therefore I doubt.