What is the penalty of death?
It is the especial and eternal mark of barbarism.

- Victor Hugo -

Sur la face de cette vieille reine de nos cathédrales, 
à côté d'une ride on trouve toujours une cicatrice.

On the face of this ancient queen of our cathedrals, 
beside each wrinkle one invariably finds a scar.

- Victor Hugo -

from Notre-Dame de Paris

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Victor Hugo Birthday

Hugo by Count Ostroróg, 1875



Aimer, c'est agir.

To love is to act.

- Victor Hugo -

last words of his diary, written two weeks before his death.


February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885


image source Wikimedia Commons

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. 

- Victor Hugo -

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior
of the soul.

- Victor Hugo -