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Victor Hugo

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.


— Victor Hugo


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Those who live are those who fight.


— Victor Hugo


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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.


— Victor Hugo


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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


— Victor Hugo


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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.


— Victor Hugo


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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.


— Victor Hugo


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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.


— Victor Hugo


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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.


— Victor Hugo


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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.


— Victor Hugo


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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.


— 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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