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Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist widely considered one of the greatest French writers. His best-known works — *Les Misérables* and *The Hunchback of Notre-Dame* — are enduring classics that blend sweeping narrative with powerful social conscience. Hugo was also an outspoken advocate for social justice and human rights.

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“To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

Beauty

All Quotes by Victor Hugo

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

— Victor Hugo

Music

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

— Victor Hugo

Great

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”

— Victor Hugo

Time

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”

— Victor Hugo

Men

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”

— Victor Hugo

Death

“People do not lack strength they lack will.”

— Victor Hugo

Strength

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

— Victor Hugo

Education

“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”

— Victor Hugo

Happiness

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

— Victor Hugo

Happiness

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

— Victor Hugo

God

“Conscience is God present in man.”

— Victor Hugo

God

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

— Victor Hugo

Mothersday

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”

— Victor Hugo

Good

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

— Victor Hugo

Time

“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.”

— Victor Hugo

Society

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”

— Victor Hugo

Time

“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

Faith

“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”

— Victor Hugo

Good

“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”

— Victor Hugo

Smile

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

— Victor Hugo

Inspirational