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Victor Hugo

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.


— Victor Hugo


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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.


— Victor Hugo


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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.


— Victor Hugo


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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.


— Victor Hugo


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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.


— Victor Hugo


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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.


— Victor Hugo


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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.


— Victor Hugo


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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.


— Victor Hugo


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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.


— Victor Hugo


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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.


— 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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