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Victor Hugo

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


— Victor Hugo


#knees #moments #posture #prayers #soul

A great artist is a great man in a great child.


— Victor Hugo


#child #great #great man #man

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.


— Victor Hugo


#idle #invisible #labor #man #thought

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.


— Victor Hugo


#doing #happiness #men #misery #nothing

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.


— Victor Hugo


#joy #laughter #much #smile #tears

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.


— Victor Hugo


#stupidity #talks #vanity

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.


— Victor Hugo


#life #precision #style #thought

When liberty returns, I will return.


— Victor Hugo


#liberty #return #returns #will

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.


— Victor Hugo


#civilization #european #exists #name #now

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.


— Victor Hugo


#secret #triumphs






About Victor Hugo

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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