Campagnaro Hugo Quotes

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel. ~ Hugo Chavez

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it. ~ Hugo Chavez

Those who do not weep, do not see. ~ Victor Hugo

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. ~ Victor Hugo

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world. ~ Victor Hugo

An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential. ~ Richard Hugo

Friday's "Working Lunch" is at The Avenue on St James's Street. It's a bit like eating in an art installation, a White-Out affair that tries for a So-Serious NYC feel, but is occupied by Daddy's Girls wearing pashmina's and too many Pin Stripes worn by too many people called Hugo. ~ Simon Pont

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ~ Victor Hugo

Who can calculate the trajectory of a molecule? How do we know the creation of worlds is not determined by the falling of grains of sand? Who, after all, knows the reciprocal ebb and flow of the infinitely big and the infinitely small, the reverberation of causes in the chasms of a being, the avalanches of creation? A ~ Victor Hugo

How we feel is how we want to be heard. ~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behing; they know only too well that misfortune follows them. ~ Victor Hugo

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. ~ Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette. ~ Victor Hugo

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted ~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit ... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. ~ Victor Hugo

She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and short cough, stammering very feebly with an agonised voice. Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. At that moment Fantine had again become beautiful. At certain instants she stopped and tenderly kissed the policeman's coat. She would have softened a heart of granite; but you cannot soften a heart of wood ~ Victor Hugo

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation. ~ Victor Hugo

Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark. ~ Victor Hugo

The child entered the hut.
The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors. ~ Victor Hugo

No fear, no regrets. ~ Victor Hugo

In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet. ~ Victor Hugo

The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise. ~ Victor Hugo

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ~ Victor Hugo

Do we ever realize our fondest dreams? ~ Victor Hugo

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race. ~ Victor Hugo

The greatest favorites of destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme smile is God's alone. ~ Victor Hugo

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray. ~ Victor Hugo

Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him. ~ 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

To constantly have at your side a woman,an unmarried woman,a sister,a wonderful person who is there because you need her and because she can't do without you,to know that you are indispensable to the one you need, to be endlessly able to measure her affection by the amount of presence she grants you and to say to your self, "since she devotes all her time to me,that means i have her whole heart";to see her thoughts,if not her face,to weigh one being's faithfulness when the rest of the world has been eclipsed,to detect the rustling of her dress as though it were the sound of wings,to hear her coming and going,going out,coming back,talking,singing,and to know you are the centre of every step she takes,of every word,of every song,to manifest your own gravitational pull every minute of the day,to feel yourself your infirmity,to become in darkness,and through darkness,the star around which this angel revolves-few worms of bliss come anywhere near it!The ultimate happiness in life is the conviction that one is loved;loved for oneself-better still,loved in spite of oneself.And this conviction is what the blind have.In such distress,to be waited on is to be hugged and kissed. ~ Victor Hugo

Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which must afterwards fill the whole life of the woman, coquetry. Love is the other. ~ Victor Hugo

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. ~ Victor Hugo

Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing. ~ Victor Hugo

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason. ~ Victor Hugo

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night. ~ Victor Hugo