Victor Hugo Quotes

• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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• Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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• Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

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• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don’t always succeed.

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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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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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