Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 20

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

  Victor Hugo

  Time, Science, Past

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• When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

  Victor Hugo

  Truth, Honesty, Speak

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• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Intellectual, Bitter Words

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• It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

  Victor Hugo

  Providence, Misfortunes

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
  So that I may leave this place and disappear.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Night, Doors

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• During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Philosophy, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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• No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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  Adversity, Men, Unhappy

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• The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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  Art, Men, Order

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

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• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

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

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• We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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  Sentences, Reprieve

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• Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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  Spiritual, Jobs, Real

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• Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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  Dirt, Materials, Misplaced

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• In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

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  Men, Light, Numbers

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

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• God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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  God, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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  Prayer, Ignorance, August

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• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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  Smile, Jesus, Civilization

  "Centenaire de Voltaire" (1878)

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• ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

  Victor Hugo

  Risk, Fascination, World

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

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• A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Thinking, Trying

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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• A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

  Victor Hugo

  Fear, Men, Beast

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7859, Delphi Classics

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• Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

  Victor Hugo

  Pieces, Popularity, Faded

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• If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

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  Spring, People, Would Be

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3568, Delphi Classics

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• Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

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  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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  Simple, Symphony, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 339, 1895.

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• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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  Men, Ideas, Doe

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