Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. Victor Hugo Read Quote
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. Victor Hugo Read Quote
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. Victor Hugo Read Quote
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. Victor Hugo Read Quote
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. Victor Hugo Read Quote
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. Victor Hugo Read Quote
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. Victor Hugo Read Quote
