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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
– Victor Hugo

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The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.
– Victor Hugo

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
– Victor Hugo

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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
– Victor Hugo

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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
– Victor Hugo

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Those who do not weep, do not see.
– Victor Hugo

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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
– Victor Hugo

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Emotion is always new.
– Victor Hugo

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
– Victor Hugo

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
– Victor Hugo

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
– Victor Hugo

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You’ll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
– Victor Hugo

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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
– Victor Hugo

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To love another person is to see the face of God.
– Victor Hugo

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
– Victor Hugo

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
– Victor Hugo

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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
– Victor Hugo

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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
– Victor Hugo

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
– Victor Hugo

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
– Victor Hugo

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
– Victor Hugo

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
– Victor Hugo

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
– Victor Hugo

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Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!
– Victor Hugo

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul.
– Victor Hugo

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
– Victor Hugo

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
– Victor Hugo

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
– Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
– Victor Hugo

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
– Victor Hugo

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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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