Quotes by Hugo, Victor

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Righ >>

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have u >>

Life is a voyage. >>

Quotations about Absence

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind e >>

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. >>

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to >>

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

Hugo, Victor