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Victor Hugo

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.


— Victor Hugo


#hope #love #peace #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

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.


— Victor Hugo


#beauty

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...


— Victor Hugo


#architecture

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)


— Victor Hugo


#love

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.


— Victor Hugo


#law #vengeance #death

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.


— Victor Hugo


#inspirational #inspirational

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.


— Victor Hugo


#openness #love

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.


— Victor Hugo


#les-miserables #sin #victor-hugo #dreams

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.


— Victor Hugo


#musical #victor-hugo #dreams






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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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