If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. Victor Hugo bishops faces men The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people. Victor Hugo fate book people We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. Victor Hugo reprieve sentences The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. Victor Hugo expression law names Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. Victor Hugo sunshine grief real He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. Victor Hugo left pain causes France is great because she is France. Victor Hugo france First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it. Victor Hugo wealth problem firsts We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable. Victor Hugo silence real soul The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop Victor Hugo wise knows men Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish. Victor Hugo elements soul evil Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. Victor Hugo perfect people thinking Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. Victor Hugo grief taken men Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder. Victor Hugo sublime suicide doe For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. Victor Hugo sight Oh! Everything I loved! Victor Hugo Liberation is not deliverance. Victor Hugo liberty freedom wisdom To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. Victor Hugo leisure philosopher way We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Victor Hugo time science past No religion but blasphemes a little. Victor Hugo littles religion
