Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 34

• Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

  Victor Hugo

  Mirrors, Doe, Use

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1314, First Avenue Editions

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• But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

  Victor Hugo

  Punishment, Vengeance, Individual

  Victor Hugo (1992). “The Last Day of a Condemned Man: And Other Prison Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

  Victor Hugo

  Poverty, Chance, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas, Visible

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.131, Dawson Bros.

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• Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

  Victor Hugo

  Hurt, Lying, People

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• The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

  Victor Hugo

  Fear, Night, Laughing

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.805, Modern Library

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• Love is a fault; so be it.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Faults

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.117, First Avenue Editions

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• To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

  Victor Hugo

  Saint, Sin, Commit

  Victor Hugo (2014). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

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• He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

  Victor Hugo

  Apples, Tree, Fruit

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Goats, Too Much

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.593, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Military, Civilization, Climate

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Ladders

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• Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Understanding, Avalanches

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• France lost a great novel last night.

  Victor Hugo

  Sex, Night, Lasts

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• Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Benefits, May

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

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• The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

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  Wisdom, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

  Victor Hugo

  America, Love At First Sight, Dancer

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• A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Paris, Soul, Preserves

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are for religion against the religions.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Errors, Way

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

  Victor Hugo

  Women, Men, Unfortunate

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.253, Dawson Bros.

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• God in his harmony has equal ends
  For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
  For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
  Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
  And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
  With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
  The somber human troop.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Women, School

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

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  Wind, Together, Twists

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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  Fall, Light, Years

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.78, Modern Library

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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