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Writer Novelist poet French playwright

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

- Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo


Being

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

- Victor Hugo
Laughter

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

- Victor Hugo

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

- Victor Hugo
Rest Man

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

- Victor Hugo
Cause Words

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

- Victor Hugo
End

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

- Victor Hugo

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