"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.”

“There are no rules for felicity.”

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”

“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.”

“No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.”

“That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.”

“Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?”

“Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.”

“All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.”