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Victor Hugo (Victor-Marie Hugo)(1802 – 1885) A French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. His best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He is recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. A great artist is a great man in a great child. A library implies an act of faith. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. A war between Europeans is a civil war. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
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