Hugo, Victor
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars—all the beauties of creation.
- Hugo, Victor
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
- Hugo, Victor
Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.
- Hugo, Victor
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
- Hugo, Victor
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
- Hugo, Victor
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
- Hugo, Victor
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- Hugo, Victor
Liberation is not deliverance.
- Hugo, Victor
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Hugo, Victor
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
- Hugo, Victor
