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Victor Hugo

1802-1885 ,  French writer
Victor HugoFrench poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831.

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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.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

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

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

I see a black light.

(his last words)


Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

How beauty varies in nature and art! In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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

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.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Men hunt. Women fish.

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

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

The flesh is the ashes, the soul is the flame.

The eyes cannot see God well except through tears.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Toleration is the best religion.

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

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering: a hell of boredom.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The dream is the aquarium of the night.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

The girl hopes, the woman enjoys, the old lady remembers.

I can, I want, I know: Three words that rule the world.

There is now a European nationality, as in the time of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides was a Greek nationality.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

You thought I was a tide and I was a deluge!

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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

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.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

God knows better than we do what we need.

The literate, the erudite, the learned mount by means of ladders; poets and artists are birds.

If I were Jesus, I would have saved Judah.

The French Revolution was the most important step for mankind since the advent of Jesus Christ.

In poverty, the body shake against each other, as in the cold, but hearts away.


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