More quotes by Victor Hugo

"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."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"
"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"