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 Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. Victor Hugo submit boredom law The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. Victor Hugo poetic elements lying It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. Victor Hugo command sometimes order Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise? Victor Hugo sailing bud flower Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. Victor Hugo youth sorrow The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. Victor Hugo wisdom beautiful beauty O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness. Victor Hugo thorns youth wings As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. Victor Hugo guillotine bishops sight Go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo going-to-sleep awake sleep When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. Victor Hugo forever heaven two The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. Victor Hugo persistence terrible ideas The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. Victor Hugo ordeals beloved loss Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void. Victor Hugo void too-much mind At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good. Victor Hugo poor depth evil Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. Victor Hugo knives play children Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Victor Hugo birthday men funny Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Victor Hugo grief essence order To contemplate is to look at shadows. Victor Hugo contemplating shadow looks In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. Victor Hugo heart winter morning The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young. Victor Hugo parent young animal
