The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Les Misérables (1862)
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Victor Hugo quotes
1802-1885 · Writers and poets
French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables.
4 quotes, 4 traced to where Hugo said or wrote them.
One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.
Histoire d'un crime (1877)
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Thoughts, Postscriptum de ma vie, translated in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (1907)
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
William Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, ch. 4