Victor Hugo Quotes

• There are no rules or models; that is, there are no rules except general laws of nature which hover over art and special laws which apply to specific subjects.

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• The primitive era was lyrical, the classical era was epic and the modern era is dramatic.

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• Beauty has only one form; ugliness has a thousand.

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• If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.

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• There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.

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• Books are cold but sure friends.

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• So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

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• Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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• Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

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• Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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• This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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• The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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• He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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• Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. … One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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• Be happy without picking flaws.

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• Love is the only future God offers.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

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• To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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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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