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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French Author
Born: Feb 26, 1802
Died: May 22, 1885
God Great Life Love Man Soul
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. Victor Hugo
Woman Obey Sometimes Know How Command Often Order Her Right Necessary
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. Victor Hugo
Style Surface Subject Substance
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. Victor Hugo
Before Changing Those Only River Am Reflected Intelligent Offered Shores Banks Which Images Meditating
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.' Victor Hugo
Life Sometimes Ought Say Says Bored Rather He Himself Because Lack
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Victor Hugo
Drama State Complete High Only Both Poetry Contain Development Contains Ode Germ Them Epic
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. Victor Hugo
Indeed Would Rembrandt Liked Been Should Second
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. Victor Hugo
Wise Man Wise Man Old Does Grow
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. Victor Hugo
Genius Out Infinite
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. Victor Hugo
Love Love Is Symptom Tenderness Almost Powerful Most Most Powerful Becomes Times Which
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. Victor Hugo
Thoughts Evil Omnipotence Our Tries Resulted Never Always Smother Escape Efforts Anything Fruitless Them Whoever
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo
Own Our Make Children Us Deeds Mar Acts
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo
Life Wise People Books Consolation Troubles Wise People Derive
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo
Thought Pleasure Reverie Intellect Labor
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo
Happiness Old Men Nothing Misery Doing Children Old Men
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! Victor Hugo
Man Woman Devil Blessed Given Toy Doll His Providence Child Which Each
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. Victor Hugo
Beautiful Rest Everything Scarcely Sublime Contrast Little Even Need Presents
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo
War Peace Crime Virtue Civilization
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. Victor Hugo
You Shall Advance Putting Hour Clock Hands Forward
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. Victor Hugo
Strange Eyes World Our Say See Only Invisible Which Flesh Luminous Night
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. Victor Hugo
Great Language Latin Possess Gulf Poetry Splendid Prose Between French French Language Privilege Greek Any Difference Literary Languages English Hardly
Wisdom is a sacred communion. Victor Hugo
Wisdom Sacred Communion
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. Victor Hugo
Too Our Examined Something Shameful Almost Almost All Contain Reveal Desires
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. Victor Hugo
Queen Our Enslaved Charm Poetry Supreme Meter Rhyme Creator
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. Victor Hugo
Great Man Liberty Great Man Only Great Thing Napoleon Been Want Century Us Let Us Thing
Many great actions are committed in small struggles. Victor Hugo
Great Small Struggles Committed Many Actions
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. Victor Hugo
Soul Will Extract Almost Inexhaustible Continually Tasks Ill Hardest
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