My greatness does not extend to this shelf. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. Victor Hugo fortunateluckfortune Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything. Victor Hugo extravaganceuselesswish We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. Victor Hugo wisdomdreammen Emotion is always new. Victor Hugo emotion A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed. Victor Hugo tryingmenthinking The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. Victor Hugo earthmenheaven Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume. Victor Hugo les-mishabitwisdom Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity. Victor Hugo twiststogetherwind I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. Victor Hugo halfwisdomwar The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Victor Hugo developmentepicdrama These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply. Victor Hugo greekattitudehands There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it. Victor Hugo advancementmoraldesire Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city. Victor Hugo citiesdwellingway There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die. Victor Hugo morrowone-wayway There must be people who pray even for those who never pray. Victor Hugo prayingpeople Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other. Victor Hugo lightyearsfall To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo wisdomdoe Enthusiasm is the fever of reason. Victor Hugo feverenthusiasmreason During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. Victor Hugo destinywisephilosophy To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil. Victor Hugo heavenhandsthinking
