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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Liberation is not deliverance
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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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