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
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.
My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.