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Victor Hugo

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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...


— Victor Hugo


#faith

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.


— Victor Hugo


#hopelessness #music #song #music

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.


— Victor Hugo


#treason #death

Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a finger -- that would suffice for my eternity!


— Victor Hugo


#love

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.


— Victor Hugo


#becomes #insupportable #love #love is #most

Oh! Everything I loved!


— Victor Hugo


#love

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.


— Victor Hugo


#life #phantom #shadow #struggle #life

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.


— Victor Hugo


#imagination #memory #mistress #servant #wife

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.


— Victor Hugo


#sorrow #jealousy

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.


— Victor Hugo


#loneliness #friendship






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Victor Hugo Quotes




Did you know about Victor Hugo?

The shortest correspondence in history is said to have been between Hugo and his publiVictor Hugor Hurst and Blackett in 1862. His last novel Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) publiVictor Hugod in 1874 dealt with a subject that Hugo had previously avoided: the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Well over one thousand musical compositions have been inspired by Hugo's works from the 19th century until the present day.

Among many volumes of poetry Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: ​[viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo]; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement.

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