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Victor Hugo

Read through the most famous quotes from Victor Hugo




By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.


— Victor Hugo


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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.


— Victor Hugo


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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.


— Victor Hugo


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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.


— Victor Hugo


#commit #disagreeable #does #just #like

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.


— Victor Hugo


#become #degrees #men #poison

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.


— Victor Hugo


#day #impossible #like #me #men

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.


— Victor Hugo


#aristocratic #democratic #tastes

No one can keep a secret better than a child.


— Victor Hugo


#child #keep #secret #than

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.


— Victor Hugo


#kings #last #paving #people #resort

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.


— Victor Hugo


#man #pain #suffers






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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