Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo sightmenlong You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo lonelykindnesslove-is God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. Victor Hugo catgivingmen She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. Victor Hugo stonesheartmight The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. Victor Hugo left-handedinconvenientleft Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. Victor Hugo lastsprofoundfirsts There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo lovefatherchildren Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo wisdommenchildren . . .where there is no more hope, song remains. Victor Hugo remainssong Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo nurserylearningerrors There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Victor Hugo strengthtimepeace Taste is the common sense of genius. Victor Hugo common-sensegeniuswisdom A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables Victor Hugo girlunhappychildren The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. Victor Hugo realwisdomdrama Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. Victor Hugo bodysoultrying When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar. Victor Hugo destinywingstwo Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. Victor Hugo richeducatechildren There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo wisdomseasky by making himself a priest made himself a demon. Victor Hugo demonpriestsmade Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo musicwisdomart