Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo birds-wingsknowinganimal Inspiration and genius -one and the same. Victor Hugo inspirationbusinesssuccessful Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. Victor Hugo les-miserableles-misstudy Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo fairnessdifficulteasy I see black light (his last words) Victor Hugo blacklastslight If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Victor Hugo pensbreakifs Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo circleswisdomideas All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening. Victor Hugo colorskysleep Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. Victor Hugo radiancesorrowgrief When liberty returns, I will return. Victor Hugo returnliberty The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him! Victor Hugo parisaugustsleep I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed. Victor Hugo direct-actioneyemistake Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. Victor Hugo ayurvedadigestionwisdom What's our baggage? Only vows, Victor Hugo flowerhairlife Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. Victor Hugo encouragingperseverancelife A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. Victor Hugo librarydarknessnight Love is the only future God offers. Victor Hugo offerslove-islove If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. Victor Hugo eyeshouldmen Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo positivelovelife Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Victor Hugo starsbrotherlove
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