Victor Hugo Quotes

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Victor Hugo

Profession : Author

Birth : February 26, 1802

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

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

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Victor Hugo

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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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.

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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