Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) 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 and then from 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,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1802
CityBesancon, France
CountryFrance
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.