I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. Victor Hugo wisdom kings art The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had. Victor Hugo fear laughing night When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars. Victor Hugo kissing stars two Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves. Victor Hugo dollars idols moving To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well. Victor Hugo wicked succeed wisdom These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps Victor Hugo felicity joy love-is Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer. Victor Hugo wisdom prayer views The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo doe men ideas Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. Victor Hugo daring splendid progress On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die. Victor Hugo les-miserable philosopher wisdom Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip. Victor Hugo lips angel night You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. Victor Hugo adorable soul feet We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing. Victor Hugo les-miserable insult wisdom The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane. Victor Hugo butterfly stars dream Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other. Victor Hugo blades edges two ...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. Victor Hugo bread doe men He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work. Victor Hugo clothes giving interesting In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics. Victor Hugo ethics flower animal Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. Victor Hugo glasses sea men You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. Victor Hugo gnats men ideas
