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Victor Hugo

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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?


— Victor Hugo


#life #philosophy #inspirational

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.


— Victor Hugo


#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.


— Victor Hugo


#love #sun #love

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.


— Victor Hugo


#love

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.


— Victor Hugo


#life #life

I see black light (his last words)


— Victor Hugo


#death #last-words #light #macabre #death

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots


— Victor Hugo


#change

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.


— Victor Hugo


#hunchback-of-notre-dame #quasimodo #victor-hugo #equality

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.


— Victor Hugo


#love

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.


— Victor Hugo


#procrastination #time-management #business






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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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