Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 18

• The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

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  Gratitude, Men, Joy

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• M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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  Fate, Thinking, Mouths

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.695, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

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  Left Handed, Left, Inconvenient

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1034, Modern Library

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• There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

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  Atheist, Powerful, Believe

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1176, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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  Two, Happened

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• This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

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  Wise, Reality, Facts

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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  Art, Writing, Divine

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

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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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• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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  Strong, Rights, People

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• Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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  Winning, Voice, Progress

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

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• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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  Thinking, Strive, Cases

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• Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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  Wisdom, United, Eloquence

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• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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  Life, Leadership, Waste

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• Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Radiance

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

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• In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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  Flower, Mind, Age

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• He who despairs is wrong.

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  Despair

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• To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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  Paris, Humans, Err Is Human

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.439, Wordsworth Editions

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• A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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  Friendship, Home, Years

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• To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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  Kissing, Love Is, Audacity

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• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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  Wisdom, Civilization, Names

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

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• ...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

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  Sleep, House, Together

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

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• The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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  Heart, Black

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

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• Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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  Men, Strange, Cosette

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

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• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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  Life, Dream, Men

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