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1802–1885 France
Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, widely esteemed as one of the greatest of French writers and poets.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
The clouds,—the only birds that never sleep.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
Les Misérables (1862)
This type is the grotesque; its new form is comedy.
Preface to Cromwell (1827)
God whose gifts in gracious flood
Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him.
Ninety-Three (1874)
On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Madame, bear in mind
You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
The Man Who Laughs (1869)
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