Quotes from Victor Hugo

Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant sans être agité lui-même.

The Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire.

On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.

The spoken word being breath, the thrilling of minds is like the rustling of leaves.

La liberazione non è la libertà; si esce dal carcere, ma non dalla condanna.

The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.

Serious men, grave persons and reasonable people; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry

CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; t

Death is the entrance into the great light.

In tempo di rivoluzione, fate attenzione alla prima testa che cade. Essa fa venire l'appetito al popolo.

Há na nossa civilização horas terríveis; são os momentos em que o direito penal sentencia um naufrágio. Que fúnebre é esse minuto em que a sociedade se distancia e consuma o abandono irreparável de um ser pensante!

An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to him — his father and his country.

Si un alma sumida en las tinieblas comete un pecado, el culpable no es en realidad el que peca, sino el que no disipa las tinieblas. Como

To them the idea of man is inseparable from the idea of shade. The night is called sorgue; man, orgue. Man is a derivative of night.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

Quiconque sait faire usage de la pensée finit par s'apercevoir qu'il n'y a point de choses indifférentes, et toute méditation dans un esprit sain et droit se termine par un éveil confus de responsabilité. Vivre, c'est être engagé.

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it.

porque es una cosa muy obscura y muy dulce ese grande y extraño movimiento de un corazón que se pone a amar.

Che cos'è, in fondo, questa storia di Fantine? È la società che compera una schiava. Da chi? Dalla miseria. Dalla fame, dal freddo, dall'isolamento, dall'abbandono, dallo squallore. Doloroso mercato! Un'anima per un pezzo di pane: la miseria offre, la società accetta.

Per impadronirsi di un cinghiale ci vuole scienza di cacciatore e forza di cani.

The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

Dans ses entreprises il a besoin d'aides et de collaborateurs ; il lui faut ce qu'il appelle lui-même « des hommes ». Diogène les cherchait tenant une lanterne, lui il les cherche un billet de banque à la main.

La montagne, la mer, la forêt, font des hommes sauvages. Elles développent le côté farouche, mais souvent sans détruire le côté humain.