Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 31

• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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  Wisdom, Stars, Night

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

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• To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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  Shadow, Looks, Contemplating

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• To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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  Paris, Study, Born

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.154, My Ebook Publishing House

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• At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

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  Friendship, Running, Wine

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• Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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  Strong, Men, Blood

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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  Bored, Sometimes, Ought

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• ...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

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  Moving, Next, Theater

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

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• A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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  Doctors, Doors, Should

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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  War, Humanity, Outrage

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

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• Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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  Clothes, Egotism

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• It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

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  War, Government, Europe

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• The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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  Garden, Names, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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• We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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  Needs, Praying

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

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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  Thinking, Worry, Soul

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

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• Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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  Song, Peace

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• Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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  Being Sad, Melancholy, Pleasure And Happiness

  Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”

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• God made the water but men made the wine.

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  Wine, Men, Water

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• The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

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  Reality, Forgotten, Reality Of Life

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.804, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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  Opportunity, Heaven, Half

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• Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

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  Love, Earth, Blind

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• Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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  Rain, Mean, Doe

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• Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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  Suicide, Sublime, Doe

  Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Llewellyn William, Frederick Lokes Slous, Mrs. Camilla Dufour (Toulmin) " Crosland (Newton Crosland, ") (1907*). “Les misérables, book 5. Hans of Iceland”

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• Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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  Men, Light, Blind

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.787, My Ebook Publishing House

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