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Victor Hugo

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.


— Victor Hugo


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Taste is the common sense of genius.


— Victor Hugo


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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.


— Victor Hugo


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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.


— Victor Hugo


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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.


— Victor Hugo


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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.


— Victor Hugo


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Toleration is the best religion.


— Victor Hugo


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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.


— Victor Hugo


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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.


— Victor Hugo


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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.


— 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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