Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 28

• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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  Wisdom, Real, Drama

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

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• A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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  Children, Hymns, Profound

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.238, Dawson Bros.

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• In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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  Running, Stars, Men

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• O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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  Angel, Night, Sky

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

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  Profound, Lasts, Firsts

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

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• She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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  Heart, Stones, Might

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

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• Taste is the common sense of genius.

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  Wisdom, Common Sense, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

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• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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  Brother, Men, Evil

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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  Twilight, Dawn, Blind

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• For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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  Gossip, Doe, Affair

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• At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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  Eye, Kissing, Fire

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.543, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

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  Book, Fate, People

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• Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

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  Night, Light, Climbing

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• It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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  Sunset, Men, Sunrise

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.49, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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  Girl, Children, Unhappy

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• Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

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  Night, Clouds, Black

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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  Nature, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Time

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• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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  Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

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• It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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  Order, Sometimes, Command

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• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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  Drama, Epic, Development

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12469, Delphi Classics

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• She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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  Lovely, Gold, Blonde

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables: World Classic”, p.158, World Classic

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• They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

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  Stars, Flower, Eye

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

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