As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts. Victor Hugo dream sleep night Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. Victor Hugo shameful desire To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them. Victor Hugo crush night art A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; Victor Hugo queens beauty needs In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese. Victor Hugo gossip men book Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. Victor Hugo remembrance self men Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man. Victor Hugo humanity struggle men They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness. Victor Hugo blindness heart love Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. Victor Hugo great-men seems men One believes others will do what he will do to himself. Victor Hugo believe Many great actions are committed in small struggles. Victor Hugo wisdom struggle action The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. Victor Hugo omnipotence effort evil Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see. Victor Hugo yesterday forever may One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. Victor Hugo white dream order Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Victor Hugo spirit rights men Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. Victor Hugo eloquence earnestness salt There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. Victor Hugo rapture affection passionate Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them. Victor Hugo human-beings humans house To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. Victor Hugo torture hypocrisy suffering Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Victor Hugo stars wisdom night
