Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 3

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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  Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism

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

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• Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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  Darkness, Mind, Earth

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

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• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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  Education, School, Common Sense

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• As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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  Mind, Pity, Should

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

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• Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

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  Love, Sexy, Roots

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• You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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  Stars, Two, Looks

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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  Wisdom, Men, Pockets

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.68

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  To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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  Thanksgiving, Prayer, Wings

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• God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

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  Cat, Men, Giving

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• Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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  Wisdom, Weight, Conscience

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5899, Delphi Classics

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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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  Sympathy, Sorrow, Doe

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• A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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  Fear, Criminals, Use

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• I think, therefore I doubt.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Doubt

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• It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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  Wise, Book, People

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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  God, Wisdom, Prayer

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

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• It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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  Contentment, Enough

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3500, Delphi Classics

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• Those who live are those who fight.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Fighting

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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  Desire, Shameful

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• From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

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  Wisdom, Men, Views

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.810, Wordsworth Editions

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• Conscience is God present in man.

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  Wisdom, Men, Conscience

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• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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  Peace, War, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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  Passion, Heart, Heroic

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

  Victor Hugo

  Behinds

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3031, Delphi Classics

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