55 Famous Quotes by Victor Hugo
2/26/1802 - 5/22/1885
Also Known As:
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
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About Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831.
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He was buried in the Panthéon.
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Dreams
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: Early Love Revisited
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The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Universe
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.
Femininity
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Ideals
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Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.
Injustice
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Labor
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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Misfortune
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You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --
Mortality
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Reality
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Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).
Service
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
Tyranny
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: The Vanished City
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.
Future
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: To His Orphan Grandchildren
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King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close tread,
The eagle of the Alps.
Eagles
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: Swiss Mercenaries
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