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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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There is in every village a torch: The schoolteacher. And an extinguisher: The priest.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
William Shakespeare (1864)
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
Oh, why am I not of stone, like you?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
We gypsies need only air and love.
Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.
What's our baggage? Only vows,
Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
William Shakespeare (1864)
À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
Things Seen (1830)
Who could ever calculate the path of a molecule?
The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.
They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
The Man Who Laughs (1869)
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.
Earth was the meadow, he the mower strong.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
I have written for all, with a profound love for my own country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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