More quotes by Victor Hugo

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
"I see black light (his last words)"