Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 17

• Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Light, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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  Wisdom, Flower, Suffering

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial

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• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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  Beauty, Nature, Garden

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• This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

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  Children, Soul, New Life

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• Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

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  God, Thinking, Giving

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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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• Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

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  Beauty, Women, Clouds

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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  Fighting, Museums, People

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• Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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  Sacrifice, Summit, Ifs

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

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• I am for religion, against religions.

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  Religion, Against Religion

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• Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

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  Running, Cat, Fate

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

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• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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  Art, Soul, Graves

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• I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

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  Morning, Lying, Twilight

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• God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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  Flower, Angel, Devil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2967, Delphi Classics

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• We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

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  Spite

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• It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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  Three, Letters, Knows

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.651, Modern Library

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• Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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  Real, Two, Soul

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• I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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  Children, Race, Names

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• Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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  Wise, Heart, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.128, Wildside Press LLC

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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

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  Drama, Epic, History

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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  Strong, Philosophy, Hands

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

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• The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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  Sleep, Clouds, Bird

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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  Night, Names, Giving

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

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• Despotism is a long crime.

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  Long, Crime, Despotism

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