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Posted on Oct 24, 2008 under Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, V, Victor Hugo | No CommentVictor Hugo’s Love Quotes and Sayings
1. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
2. A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
3. Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
4. The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
5. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
6. What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
In France, Hugo’s literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.
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Famous Sayings by Victor Hugo
1. A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
2. A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
3. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
4. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
5. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
6. All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
7.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.
8. Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
9. Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
10. Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
11. Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
12. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
13. 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.
14. He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
15. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
16. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
17. 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.’
18. People do not lack strength; they lack will.
19. Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
20. Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
21. The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
22. When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
