1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.

To learn to read is to light a fire

...and when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be born in Paris.

The night was serene. Not a cloud was in the zenith. What mattered is that the earth was red, the moon retained her whiteness. Such is the indifference of heaven.

خذ حبي .. الحب الابدي و تذكر الحقيقة التي ذُكرت مرة ،ان تحب شخص آخر كأن تري وجه الله

Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole è fra queste.

Se ignora lo que se debe saber, y se sabe lo que se debería ignorar.

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh ! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault ; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that.

Finally, he said to himself that it was a necessity, that his destiny was so fixed, that it was not for him to derange the arrangements of God, that at all events he must choose, either virtue without, and abomination within, or sanctity within, and infamy without.