Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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  Nature, Animal, Men

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

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  Eye, Men, Sea

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

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

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  Science, Lasts, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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  Vanity, Stupidity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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  Dream, Self, Mind

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• Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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  Years, Lasts, Crowns

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.27

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• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

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

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