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Victor Hugo

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.


— Victor Hugo


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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.


— Victor Hugo


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


— Victor Hugo


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I'm religiously opposed to religion.


— Victor Hugo


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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.


— Victor Hugo


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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.


— Victor Hugo


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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.


— Victor Hugo


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Habit is the nursery of errors.


— Victor Hugo


#habit #nursery

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.


— Victor Hugo


#every #every man #god #hope #man

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.


— Victor Hugo


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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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