"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.
Victor HugoWhen I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor HugoSymmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
Victor HugoGreat 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 HugoPhilosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
Victor HugoThe death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.
Victor Hugo