Victor Hugo Quotes

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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  Topics in Love, Power

  Tags in Tenderness, Symptom

• Progress is the stride of God.

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  Topics in God, Progress

• I’m religiously opposed to religion.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Opposed

• Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).

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  Topics in Love, Service

  Tags in Humility

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Inexhaustible, Continually, Tasks

• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vanity, Stupidity

• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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  Topics in Intelligence

• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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  Topics in Intelligence

• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.

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  Topics in Intelligence

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Mediocrity, Lofty

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future.

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  Topics in Genius

• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.

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  Topics in Genius

• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Necessarily, Deficiencies

• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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  Topics in Future, History, Past

  Tags in Echo, Reflex

• At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry – Les Miserables

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  Topics in Friendship, Love

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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  Topics in Family, Father

• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Fashions, Revolution

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Marble, Statue

• A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.

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  Topics in Anger
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  Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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  Tags in Night

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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