Victor Hugo Quotes

• Conscience is God present in man.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Present, Conscience

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Garden, Ugly, Mountain

• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Strive, Logical

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Common Sense, Taste, Clothes, Common

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Reality, Living

• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dignity, Command

• It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Obey, Command

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in European, Slavery, Women, Civilization

• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Present, Civilization

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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  Tags in Mankind

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Visible, Eyes, Idle, Labor

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intellect, Reverie, Thought, Pleasure, Labor

• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brow, Word, Hope, Man

• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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  Topics in Dream, Future, Inspirational

  Tags in Dreaming, Planning, Man

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Coat, Young, Poor, Man

• Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Race, Style, Man

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible

• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in ideal, Substance, Cognate, Identical

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Evolution, Progress

  Tags in Advanced, Roughly, Race, Human

• There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Inspiration

Victor Hugo (266)

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

About

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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