Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 26

• Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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  Friends, Enemy, Sometimes

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• The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

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  Soul, Secret, Depth

  "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, Book V, Chapter I, 1864.

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• M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

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  Book, Political Opinions, Passionate

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.461, Wordsworth Editions

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• The malicious have a dark happiness.

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  Bullying, Dark, Malicious

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.158, Modern Library

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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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• In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

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  Animal, Men, World

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• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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  Work, Tyrants, Would Be

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• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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  Angel, Men, Two

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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  The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

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  Buddhism, Men, Glimpse

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

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• It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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  Thinking, Aim Of Life, Forget

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1231, Modern Library

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• As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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  Real, Taken, First Love

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• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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  Faith, Wisdom, Believe

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

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  Twilight, Joy, Being Sad

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• Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

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  Brother, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.66

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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  Eye, Animal, Reflection

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

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• The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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  Shrinking, World, Expanding

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• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

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  Ignorance, Fate, Men

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• Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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  Children, Knives, Play

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

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• An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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  Tears, Boiling Over, Accepting

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

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• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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  Wisdom, Animal, Men

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• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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  Beautiful, Soul, Unhappy

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.709, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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  Wisdom, Secret, Triumph

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2209, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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  Believe, Men, Law

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