Victor Hugo Quotes


Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.


Citations

Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1888, p. 93.

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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
  • Born: February 26, 1802
  • Died: May 22, 1885
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.