Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 16

• Be happy without picking flaws.

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  Flaws

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.238, Wildside Press LLC

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• The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

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  Wise, Men, Knows

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.82, Library of Alexandria

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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  Book, Letters, Stones

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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  Nonsense, Impunity

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.205, Victor Hugo

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• Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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  Giving, Useless

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Under Sentence of Death”, p.112, Victor Hugo

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• God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

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  God, Flirty, Flirting

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• God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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  God, Men, Devil

  "Ruy Blas (Act II, Scene V)". Tragic drama by Victor Hugo, November 8, 1838.

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• History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

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  Truth, Legends

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• Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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  Flow, Three, Iliad

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

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• The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

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  Simple, Doctors, Oil

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• ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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  Confused, Infamous, Unfortunate

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

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• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

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  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

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• To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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  Love, Soul, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.637, Wordsworth Editions

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• The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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  Art, Intelligent, Luxury

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.42, Modern Library

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• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

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  Crush, Stars, Fall

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• There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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  Character, Sea, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.892, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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  Wisdom, Insult, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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  Theatre, Life Is, Entrances

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.726, Simon and Schuster

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• There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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  Wings, Light, Flames

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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  Beauty, Humanity, Religion

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• Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

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  Sun, Logic, Candle

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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  Real, Grief, Sunshine

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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• The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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  Heart, House, Hatred

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• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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