Victor Marie Hugo
France
26 Feb 1802 // 22 May 1885
Poet / Novelist / Playwrigh t /Essayist
26 Feb 1802 // 22 May 1885
Poet / Novelist / Playwrigh t /Essayist
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime
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
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other
Life is the flower for which love is the honey
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays