Victor Hugo Quotes

• Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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• When liberty returns, I will return.

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• Habit is the nursery of errors.

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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• The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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• Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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• The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.

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• A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

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• In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase.

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• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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• You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. — Jean Valjean —

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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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