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
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.