#ay

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#knees #moments #posture #prayers #soul

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bored #himself #killed #lack #life

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#flesh #invisible #invisible world #luminous #night

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#day #impossible #like #me #men

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ignorance #prayer

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#cases #god #itself #striving #think

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#begin #compliment #friends #growing #growing old

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#anything #do you know #funny #humiliating #innocence

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#always #attainment #condition #earth #essential