Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 19

• Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

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  Science, Lasts, Firsts

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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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• ...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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• Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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  Children, Joy, Accepting

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Simple

  Victor Hugo (1867). “The Toilers of the Sea: A Novel”, p.20

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• The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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  Kindness, Sadness, Excuse

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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  Life, Country, Greatness

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• Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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  Eye, Curiosity, Gluttony

  Victor Hugo (1894*). “The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo”

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• A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

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  Men, Blind, Incomplete

  Victor Hugo (1887). “Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others”

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• What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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  What Matters, Mind, Ears

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• People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

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  People, Looks, Trouble

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

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• First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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  Firsts, Problem, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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  Vanity, Stupidity

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• Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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  Luck, Fortune, Fortunate

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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  Two, Lines, Saws

  "Les Miserables".

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• Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

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  Faith, Care, Take Care

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• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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  Children, Blessed, Men

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• Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

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  Men, Rome, Tyrants

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

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• For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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  Kings, Wind, Desert

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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  Wisdom, Punishment, Vengeance

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• War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

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  War, Unjust War, Civil War

  "Les Miserables".

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• Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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  Mountain, Building, Century

  Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.63, Oxford University Press, UK

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• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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  Time, Science, Past

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