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Victor Hugo

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Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.


— Victor Hugo


#hugo #dreams

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.


— Victor Hugo


#love #rivalry #friendship

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.


— Victor Hugo


#religion #education

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.


— Victor Hugo


#dreams

Laughter is the sun which drives the winte from the human face.


— Victor Hugo


#laughter #positive-thinking #inspirational

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.


— Victor Hugo


#wall #life

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.


— Victor Hugo


#love #pain #soul #sublime #suffering

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.


— Victor Hugo


#boredom #hell #imagination

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth


— Victor Hugo


#youth #love

À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.


— Victor Hugo


#freedom #justice #education






About Victor Hugo

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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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