The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. – Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo