Victor Hugo Quotes

• Love is the only future God offers.

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  Topics in God, Love

• Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness
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  Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Words, Expresses

• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Happiness

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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  Topics in Attitude, Inspirational

  Tags in Knees, Men

• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Patience, Sorrow, Courage

• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Frightful, Die

• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Democratic

• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Happiness
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  To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrible

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Height, Greatness
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  Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Flood, Cute

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in School, Close

• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civil, War, Between, Men, Brother

• England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book

• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woes, Faith, Necessity, Man, Believe

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Become, Angel, Being

• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in River, Offered, Flowed, Intelligent, Bank

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Invasion, Time, Army

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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