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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
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More quotes by Victor Hugo
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
Victor Hugo
There are no rules for felicity.
Victor Hugo
Loving is half of believing.
Victor Hugo
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
Victor Hugo
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
Victor Hugo
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
Victor Hugo
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
Victor Hugo
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Victor Hugo
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
Victor Hugo
...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
Victor Hugo
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Victor Hugo
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
Victor Hugo
Love is a fault so be it.
Victor Hugo
She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
Victor Hugo
