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Victor Hugo

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.


— Victor Hugo


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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.


— Victor Hugo


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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.


— Victor Hugo


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Wisdom is a sacred communion.


— Victor Hugo


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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.


— Victor Hugo


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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.


— Victor Hugo


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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.


— Victor Hugo


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A library implies an act of faith.


— 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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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.


— 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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