Victor Hugo

essayist

Perancis · 1802 - 1885 · 369 kata bijak

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Kebahagiaan

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!

🖼 Gambar

Cinta

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

🖼 Gambar

Doa

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

🖼 Gambar

Kejujuran

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

🖼 Gambar

Pendidikan

Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise.

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

🖼 Gambar

Cinta

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.

🖼 Gambar

Motivasi

The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.

🖼 Gambar

Doa

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

🖼 Gambar

Kebahagiaan

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

🖼 Gambar

Cinta

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

🖼 Gambar

Motivasi

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

🖼 Gambar

Kehidupan

This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.

🖼 Gambar

Pendidikan

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness

🖼 Gambar

Kebahagiaan

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

🖼 Gambar