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Victor Hugo

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.


— Victor Hugo


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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'


— Victor Hugo


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People do not lack strength; they lack will.


— Victor Hugo


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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.


— Victor Hugo


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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.


— Victor Hugo


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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.


— Victor Hugo


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A war between Europeans is a civil war.


— Victor Hugo


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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.


— Victor Hugo


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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.


— Victor Hugo


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Conscience is God present in man.


— Victor Hugo


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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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