Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 15

• The true artist can only labor con amore.

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  Art, Artist, Labor

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• The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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  Stupid, Stupidity, Pieces

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.984, First Avenue Editions

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• Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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  Flower, Sailing, Bud

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• Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Return

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.779, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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  Fever, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

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  Dog, Kings, Cat

  Victor Hugo (1917). “The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction”

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• To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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  Hypocrisy, Suffering, Torture

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

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• If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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  Educational, Philosophy, Sun

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• Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

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  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.669, Wordsworth Editions

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• Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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  Progress, Stage, Accomplished

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1294, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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  Mind, Atheism, Slavery

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• . . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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  Song, Remains

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.97

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• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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  Inspiring, Heart, Charity

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Men

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• Emotion is always new.

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  Emotion

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5405, Delphi Classics

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• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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  Dream, Self, Mind

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• In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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  Art, Light, Heat

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• Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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  Beautiful, God, Kings

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

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• The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

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  Love You, Being In Love, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.65

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• Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

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  Heart, Fate, Night

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

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• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (1896). “Dramas”

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Together

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

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• Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

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  Stars, Dark, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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• Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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  Spiritual, Jobs, Real

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• The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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  Men, Lines, Optical Illusions

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1969, BookCaps Study Guides

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