The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. – Victor Hugo
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc