The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Quotes

“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”
― Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

“this spectre encountered the rich man in all his glory; but they did not look at each other, they passed on. This condition of things could thus last for some time. The moment this man perceives that this woman exists, while this woman does not see that this man is there, the catastrophe is inevitable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

“Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. During this journey in 1825”
― Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

“Through a religion you see the solar spectre of God, but not God.”
― Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

“My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.”
― Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo