Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 22

• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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  Wisdom, Past, Echoes

  Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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  Depression, Light, Soul

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

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• God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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  Art, Nature, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”

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• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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  Faith, Confidence, Health

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• God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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  Men, Action

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• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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  Female, Pebbles, Lovers

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• Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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  Believe, Science, Mad

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• At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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  Evil, Depth, Poor

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.72

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• Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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  Spring, Real, Return

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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  Doe, Action, Commit

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• He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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  Reality, Pockets, Found

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• Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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  Men, Bread, Affirmation

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• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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  Love You, Heart, Trying

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• I was dying when you came.

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  Dying

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

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  Hero, Eye, Feet

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

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• Progress is the stride of God.

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  God, Progress, Stride

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• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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  Wisdom, Circles, Ideas

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

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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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  Race, Progress, Brutality

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

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• The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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  Owl, Larks, Nests

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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  Suffering, Height, Ifs

  'Contemplations' (1856) bk. 5, no. 26 'Les Malheureux'

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• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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  Children, Secret

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

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• What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

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  Love, Positive, Romantic

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• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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  Kings, People, Paving The Way

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• To love is the half of to believe.

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  Believe, Love Is, Half

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• God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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  Men, God Bless, Bless

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