Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-02-26 – 1885-05-22) is recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet.
Found 110 thoughts of Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height
Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
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