Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 24

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Bird, Soul

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• One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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  Women, Yield, Magnanimity

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.205, Wildside Press LLC

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• Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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  Blow, Blood, Tears

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• How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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  Hypocrisy, Frightened

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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  Dream

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• To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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  God, Giving, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

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• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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  Caps, Dictionary

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• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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  Death, Dream, Wisdom

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• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

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  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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• Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

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  Two, Blades, Edges

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

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• A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

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  Beautiful, Heaven, New Life

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• A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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  Wisdom, Ideas, Mind

  Victor Hugo's ppening address to the Peace Congress in Paris, August 21, 1849.

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• The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

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  Jesus, Law, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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  Heart, Light, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3098, Delphi Classics

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• Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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  Wisdom, Rivers, Doe

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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  Beauty, Art, Flesh

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• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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  Wisdom, Blessing, Boredom

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

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• If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

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  Letting Go, Doe, Pursuit

  "Les misérables".

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• We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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  Simple, Fire, Iron

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

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• "I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

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  Friendship, Hurt, Wrinkles

  "Les Miserables".

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• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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  Animal, Men, Sometimes

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• Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

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  Men, May, Irritated

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

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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  Beauty, Wisdom, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions

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• My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

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  Country, Revenge, Europe

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