What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

About Victor Hugo

Portrait of Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

More quotations from Victor Hugo

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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