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Victor Hugo

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.


— Victor Hugo


#defects #distance #qualities #range #sees

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.


— Victor Hugo


#cannot #ideas #invasion #resist

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.


— Victor Hugo


#knows #learned #learned man #man

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.


— Victor Hugo


#big ones #comprised #duty #little #little people

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


— Victor Hugo


#greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #life #loved

We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor the thoughtful man.


— Victor Hugo


#religion

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.


— Victor Hugo


#surface #unknown

To love is to act.


— Victor Hugo


#love #love is #to love

The ox suffers, the cart complains.


— Victor Hugo


#complains #ox #suffers

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.


— Victor Hugo


#dreams






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Did you know about Victor Hugo?

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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