Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo
( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. (Wikipedia)
Quotes:
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
—Victor Hugo
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas.
– Victor Hugo
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
—Victor Hugo
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
– Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
– Victor Hugo
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones.
– Victor Hugo
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I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
~Victor Hugo
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo
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Our acts make or mar us,— we are the children of our own deeds.
—Victor Hugo.
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Popularity? It’s glory’s small change.
– Victor Hugo
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The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.
—Victor Hugo.
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The malicious have a dark happiness.
– Victor Hugo
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~Victor Hugo
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
– Victor Hugo
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The three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjugation of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
– Victor Hugo
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies which invite me.
—Victor Hugo.
