Victor Hugo Quotes

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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• Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

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• Toleration is the best religion.

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• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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• May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy.

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• There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance.

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• To love beauty is to see light.

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• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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Victor Hugo (266)

Birth:	26th February, 1802
Death:	22nd May, 1885
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered the most well-known French Romantic writer. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements.

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