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
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.