Authors
Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885
Victor Hugo was a French novelist and poet who wrote two of the most beloved novels in history, Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The latter drew public attention to the neglected, crumbling state of the real Notre-Dame cathedral and helped spark the restoration campaign that saved it. He used his stories to speak out against poverty and injustice in French society. He is remembered as one of France's greatest writers and a passionate defender of human rights, and when he died, roughly two million people lined the streets of Paris for his funeral procession.
Quotes
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
“Though there be night within us, we may still possess the stars.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”
“Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with the abysses of the universe!”
“At one’s feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.”
“What matters it if the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of the sky.”
“There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.”
“Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars.”