Victor Hugo: "If a writer wrote merely for his time,..."

About 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.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

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.

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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