Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 11

• Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, One Day, Gains

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.700, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Atheist, Religion

  "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

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• I see black light (his last words)

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Black, Lasts

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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Horse, Women

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• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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• One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Glasses, Water

  Victor Hugo, Henry Llewellen Williams (jr), Frank Thomas Marzials (1907*). “Works of Victor Hugo: Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned”

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• These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Joy, Felicity

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wisdom, Live Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

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  Perfect, Perfection, Lovely

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• A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall, Height

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Liberty, Want

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• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  Victor Hugo

  Pearls, Goodness, Wells

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• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  Victor Hugo

  Ill Will, Soul, Tasks

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• They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Heart, Blindness

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• To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Paris, Soul, Breathe

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• The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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  Sleep, World, Existence

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5084, Delphi Classics

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• The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Silence, Moments

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7026, Delphi Classics

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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  World, Alphabet, Language

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• Morality is truth in full bloom.

  Victor Hugo

  Morality

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

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• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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  Honesty, Strange, Speak

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

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  God, Pride, Moon

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• She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

  Victor Hugo

  Sadness, Secret, Obscure

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.25

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• Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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  Hands, Honor, Shadow

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