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
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.