Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

"To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G — - to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

where there is no more hope, song remains.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.

Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

No fear, no regrets.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes