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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
Victor Hugo
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
Victor Hugo
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
Victor Hugo
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
There are things stronger than the strongest man.
Victor Hugo
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
Victor Hugo
He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
Victor Hugo
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Victor Hugo
The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
Victor Hugo
Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
Victor Hugo
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
Victor Hugo
