Victor Hugo

"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

"His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body."

"It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty."

"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."

"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."

"The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven."

"Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity."

"Be happy without picking flaws."

"The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure."

"In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open."

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."