Victor Hugo Quotes

• Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Giving, Mind

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• Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

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  Hurt, Listening, World

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• The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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  Positive, Names, Impossible

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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Opportunity, Names

  Speech by President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, at inauguration of National Conference of the Association for the Progress of Management, www.lamoncloa.gob.es. November 13, 2012.

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  Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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  Real, Lying, Vices

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.43, My Ebook Publishing House

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  Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

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• Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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  Inspirational, Exercise, Imagination

  "Robb, Victor Hugo". Book by Graham Robb, p. 249, 1997.

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• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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  Night, Free Education, Soul

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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  Contentment, Enough

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3500, Delphi Classics

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• You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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  Stars, Two, Looks

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• I think, therefore I doubt.

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  Thinking, Doubt

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• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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  Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

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  Religious, Future, Science

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  To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wedding, Happy Valentines Day

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, Xist Publishing

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  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.

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  Thanksgiving, Prayer, Wings

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• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Errors, Truth Is

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• I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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  Money, Men, Wealth

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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  Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

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• Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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  Revolution, Chance, Born

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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