Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.


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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO