Victor Hugo Quotes

It produces immense sadness to think that nature speaks while the human race does not listen.

Animals belong to God. Bestiality is human.

The strongest force of all is an innocent heart

Suffering deserves respect, submission is contemptible

Chaste love ennobles souls

Dare: progress is only achieved that way

How! No criticism at all? No. Genius is an entity like nature and, like nature, it wants to be accepted purely and simply. A mountain is taken or left. There are people who criticize the Himalayas stone by stone! Everything in genius has its reason for being. It is because it is. Its name is the reverse of its light. Its fire is a consequence of its flame. Its precipice is the condition of its height.

To be discussed is to be perceived.

Love opens the parenthesis, marriage closes it.

Architecture is the great book of humanity.

To attribute the revolution to men is to attribute the tide to the waves.

Success is a rather repugnant thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.