Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo

Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Habit is the nursery of errors.
Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo

I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo