Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 30

• Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Taken, Men

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.379, Wildside Press LLC

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• His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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  Heart, Men, Compassion

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

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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  Fortune Cookie, Bows, Grammar

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

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• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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  Grief, Order, Essence

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

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• If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

  Victor Hugo

  Suffering, Ifs

  Contemplations 'Les Malheureux'

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• A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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  Shadow, Throat, Hard

  Victor Hugo (1893). “The Novels, Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo: Les misérables”

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• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. '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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  Brother, Eye, Angel

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

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• For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Poems by Victor Hugo”, p.314, Victor Hugo

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• Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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  Believe, Hands, Temples

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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  Queens, Charm, Meter

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• All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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  Animal, Sea, Land

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

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• At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Angel, Looks

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• He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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  Clothes, Giving, Interesting

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• Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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  Weight, Common, Divine

  Victor Hugo (1874). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.20

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• Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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  Stars, Men, Ducks

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

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• Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughing, Enthusiasm, Mirth

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2760, Delphi Classics

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• If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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  Grandmother, Men, Grandparent

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• Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

  Victor Hugo

  Character, Joy, Faults

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• Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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  Ideas, Rivers, Flow

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• The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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  Fall, People, Stones

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• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• A wedding is not house-keeping.

  Victor Hugo

  Wedding, House

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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  Sleep, Bed, Supper

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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  Feet, Adorable, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.872, Modern Library

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