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Victor Hugo

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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.


— Victor Hugo


#verb #word

To contemplate is to look at shadows.


— Victor Hugo


#look #shadows

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.


— Victor Hugo


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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.


— Victor Hugo


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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.


— Victor Hugo


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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.


— Victor Hugo


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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.


— Victor Hugo


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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.


— Victor Hugo


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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.


— Victor Hugo


#carnival #constant #everything #left

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.


— 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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