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Victor Hugo

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Despotism is a long crime.


— Victor Hugo


#despotism #long

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.


— Victor Hugo


#someone #something #your

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.


— Victor Hugo


#come #greater #idea #mighty #than

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.


— Victor Hugo


#capable #enduring #free #poverty #who

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.


— Victor Hugo


#banks #before #changing #flowed #i

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.


— Victor Hugo


#france #kings #yes

Liberation is not deliverance.


— Victor Hugo


#liberation

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.


— Victor Hugo


#female #lover #made #makes #nature

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.


— Victor Hugo


#himself #others #will

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.


— Victor Hugo


#death #dreams #ideal #life #our






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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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