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Quote by Victor Hugo

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo, a French romantic poet, novelist, and playwright, was born on February 26, 1802, and died on May 22, 1885. He is considered one of the greatest writers in French literary history, known for his profound humanistic concerns and rich imagination. more

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Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“There shall be no slavery of the mind.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“It is often our best friends who throw us down.”

Author:Victor Hugo

“With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.”

Ifs Men Would Be Bits Effort My Friends Tiny Neglect Weed Bad Man Pests Nettles

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.”

Author:Victor Hugo

“"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."”

Feels Doe Friendship Hurt Movement Warm Coats Wrinkles Hurt Me Old Friends Complacent Deformity

Author:Victor Hugo

“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”

Book:Hugo's Works: Last Days of a Condemned and Life of Victor Hugo

Source: Hugo's Works: Last Days of a Condemned and Life of Victor Hugo

“I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”

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Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.”

Source: Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean