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Victor Hugo

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.


— Victor Hugo


#crime #peace #virtue #war

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.


— Victor Hugo


#ignorance #prayer

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.


— Victor Hugo


#soaring #wits

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.


— Victor Hugo


#boat #current #does #flowing #going

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.


— Victor Hugo


#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.


— Victor Hugo


#intelligence #scepticism

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.


— Victor Hugo


#great #great man #man #rest #seems

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.


— Victor Hugo


#style #subject #substance #surface #unceasingly

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.


— Victor Hugo


#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.


— Victor Hugo


#century #child #darkness #degradation #great






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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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