Victor Hugo

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is read more

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.