Victor Hugo Quotes
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Modern Library, 1992, p. 195.
We can and do influence life greatly, for the good and the bad. Public health and human extermination of species by over use are good examples.
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.
