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Victor Hugo 308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes

Source: Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) (1863), Ch. 5.

“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 821–822 (tr. Christopher Collard)

“Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not!”
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.