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
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
Right is right only when entire.
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.