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 Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. Victor Hugo It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent. Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. Victor Hugo Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Popularity It is glory's small change. Victor Hugo Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables) Victor Hugo So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. Victor Hugo So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.” Victor Hugo The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. Victor Hugo What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness." Victor Hugo We are the ones who need help, gay people, people living with AIDS. When it comes to those things, the church has an attitude of intolerance, of disgust. Victor Hugo world Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. Victor Hugo waves man intelligence speak
