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Victor Hugo Biography

Victor Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ( listen); 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

Aids, Dream, Perhaps, Reality, Touch

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Humanity, Patriotic, Simple

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Charity, Emptied, Heart, Inspiring, Purse

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

Cloudless, Earth, Heaven, Love, Positive, Romantic

France lost a great novel last night.

France, Lasts, Lost, Night, Sex

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

Character, Grand, Heaven, Sea, Spectacle

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Deceives, Deceiving, False, Men, Merit, Thing

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Children, Educate, Rich, Value

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man. . . . Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Brother, Dark, Forget, Men, Perdition, Withdraw

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Angel, Care, Flower, Flowers

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Darkness, Diamonds, Earth, Mind, Truth

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Demon, Made, Making, Priest, Priests

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Accountable, Deeds, Masters, Thoughts, Wisdom

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

Inconvenient, Left, Left Handed, Places, Rest, Take

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

Drama, Epic, History, Lyrical, Primitive

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Bestowed, God, Hope, Ignorance, Man, Men

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life. ' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life. '

Bored, Killed, Lack, Life, Ought, Sometimes

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

Black, Clouds, Hammocks, Night, Ragged, Said

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

God, Individual, Punishment, Vengeance, Wisdom

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

Book, Everybody, Ist, Lived, Passionate, Political Opinions

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