Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 14

• He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Grief, Looks

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.16

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• A library implies an act of faith.

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  Library

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

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• I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

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  Religious, Prayer, Believe

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• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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  Believe

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• It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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  Fall

  "Notre Dame of Paris".

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• To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

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  Lying, Deceit, Littles

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.886, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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  Wisdom, Verbs

  Contemplations bk. 1, no. 8 (1856)

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• He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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  Les Mis, Study

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.72, My Ebook Publishing House

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• We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

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  Horse, Eye, Expression

  Victor Hugo (18??). “The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings”

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• Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

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  Mind, Too Much, Void

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.116, Modern Library

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• A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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  Cynic, Sewers

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.858, Wordsworth Editions

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• Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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  Real, Thinking, Worry

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

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• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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  Honor, Gold, Fool

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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  Names, Life Is, Enigma

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• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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  Past, Giving, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

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• Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

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  Spirit, Moral, Rebellion

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

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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  Wisdom, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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  Suicide, World, Ends

  Victor Hugo (1852). “Napoleon the Little”, p.214

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• The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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  Bird, Soul, Cages

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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  Society, Trying, Republic

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• There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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  Darkness, Pressure

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.102

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• Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

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  Lying, Emotional, Feelings

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• A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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  Death, Feet, Profound

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• To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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  Thinking, Shadow, Serious Things

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

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• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

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  Love, Life, Romantic

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