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Victor Hugo

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.


— Victor Hugo


#fire #learn #light #out #read

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.


— Victor Hugo


#imagination

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.


— Victor Hugo


#conscience

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.


— Victor Hugo


#strength

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.


— Victor Hugo


#closes #door #opens #prison #school

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.


— Victor Hugo


#work #work

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.


— Victor Hugo


#inspirational

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.


— Victor Hugo


#love

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.


— Victor Hugo


#face #human #human face #laughter #sun

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.


— Victor Hugo


#hell #intelligent #paradise #stupid #than






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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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