Victor Hugo

Another story must begin! ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#war #revolution

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #profound #inspirational

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grief #life

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#happiness #anxiety

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anger

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#family

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#orphans #beauty

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.) ↗

— Victor Hugo

#victor-hugo #life