Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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  Educational, Philosophy, Sun

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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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• He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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  Hands, Long, Impossible

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• There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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  Mind, Atheism, Slavery

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

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  Art, Light, Heat

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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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• 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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• 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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• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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  Eye, Night, World

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• In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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  Death, Wreaths, Germs

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

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• A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

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  Courage, Heart, May

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5103, Delphi Classics

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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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• A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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  Quality, Prudence, Ifs

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• Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

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  Passion, Love Is, Thinking

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

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• It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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  Real, Vices, Prejudice

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

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• The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

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  Moving, Hands, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

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