Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 10

• A writer is a world trapped in a person.

  Victor Hugo

  World, Persons, Trapped

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• Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Land, Borders

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.16

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• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Eye, Thinking

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

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• Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

  Victor Hugo

  Les Mis, Study, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  Victor Hugo

  Law, Boredom, Submit

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

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• We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Learning, Journey

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• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughing, Suffering, Sometimes

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• Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

  Victor Hugo

  Sin, Wealth

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• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Historical, Civil War

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• The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Soul, Needs

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• Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

  Victor Hugo

  Rocks, Agony, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

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• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Shame, Glory

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• The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

  Victor Hugo

  Terrible, Motive, Response

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.597, Modern Library

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• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

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• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

  Victor Hugo

  Women, Bravery, Curiosity

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.3, Mondial

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• He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Safe, Cold

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.840, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

  Victor Hugo

  Aim

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• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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• Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Men, Foolishness

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.911, Wordsworth Editions

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• To rise at six, to dine at ten,
  To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
  Makes a man live for ten times ten.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Men, Six

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• True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

  Victor Hugo

  Mystery, Thinker, Clearness

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• Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Men, Unknown Things

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.30, My Ebook Publishing House

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