Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Victor Hugo was a renowned French novelist, poet, and playwright, widely regarded as one of the greatest Romantic writers of the 19th century. He is best known for his works "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," which have left a lasting impact on French literature and culture.
1802–1885·lived 83 years
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
At intervals can be seen a glimpse of truth, that daylight of the human soul.Soleils Couchants
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Are you afraid of the good you might do?
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.Les Misérables, 1862
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.Les Misérables, p. 123, 1862
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.Les Misérables, p. 123, 1862
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.Les Misérables, 1862
To love beauty is to see light.Les Misérables, The Modern Library, ed. 1862, Volume V, Jean Valjean, Book I, War Between Four Walls, Chapter XX, p. 1040
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Les Misérables, 1862
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography [Postscriptum de ma Vie], Thoughts, sec. 5, 1901 [tr. O'Rourke, 1907]
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.Les Misérables, p. 123, 1862
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.Diary (1845-12-07), Villemain, Things Seen [Choses Vues], Vol. 1, 1887
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.Les Misérables
He who does not weep does not see.Les Misérables, 1862
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.Les Misérables, 1862
One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.The History of a Crime, ch. 10, Conclusion, 1878
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.Les Misérables, 1862
That’s all 24 quotes by Victor Hugo.