Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 35

• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Great Men, Seems

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• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

  Victor Hugo

  Carnivals, Constant, Left

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

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• Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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  Men, Glasses, Sea

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

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• The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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  Courage, Men, Light

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

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• A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, World, Poet

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• The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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  Land, Water, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.104, 谷月社

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• The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
  [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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  War, Eagles

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• There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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  Tree, Stories, Trifling

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

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• Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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  Stars, Dark, Clouds

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

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• There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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  Sovereign, Eloquence, Indignation

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.566, Modern Library

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• To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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  Divine, Humans

  "Autumn Leaves". Book by Victor Hugo, 1831.

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• For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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  Men, People, Ordinary

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

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• The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

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  Beautiful, Makeup, Men

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12466, Delphi Classics

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• We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Hands, Monsters

  "Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel".

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• Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

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  Cities, Dwelling, Way

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• The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

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  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

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  Philosophy, Answers, Blocked

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

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• Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

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  Friendship, Blessed, People

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• No religion but blasphemes a little.

  Victor Hugo

  Religion, Littles

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• Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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  Brother, Hands, Two

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

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• For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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  Art, Poetry, Harmony

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12470, Delphi Classics

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• This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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  Beautiful, Art, Literature

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• Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

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  Order, Ideas, Inspire

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• It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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  Men, Shadow, Shapes

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

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