Victor Hugo
View AuthorThe love is a burning forgetfulness of everything.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorMan is an infinitely small copy of God. This is enough glory for man. Despite my insignificance, I acknowledge that God is within me.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorThe greater a man's knowledge, the greater his faith must be; and the closer he gets to God, the clearer his vision of God becomes.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorArt, in itself, does not move forward or backward.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorGod reveals Himself to us first through the life of the universe, second through human thought. The first manifestation is called nature, the second art.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorThe acceptance of oppression by the oppressed ends up being complicity; cowardice is consent; there is shameful solidarity and participation between the government that does wrong and the people who allow it to do so.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorA revolution is the larva of a civilization.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorThere is only one power: conscience in the service of justice; there is only one glory: genius, in the service of truth.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorBeauty is the forehead, love is the crown.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorIn man there is a serpent: the intestine, which tempts, betrays, and punishes.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorA faith: behold the most necessary thing for man. Unfortunate is the one who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorThe genius on earth is God who gives himself. Every time a masterpiece appears, it is a distribution of Divinity that is made to men. The masterpiece is a kind of miracle.