Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 38

• It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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  Growth, Victory, Nigeria Independence

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.32

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• When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

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  Memories, Disappointment, Fire

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• To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

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  Dream, Angel, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

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  Evil, Soul, Elements

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• Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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  Believe, Remembrance, Philosopher

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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  Wisdom, Genius, Infinite

  "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

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• Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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  Breathe

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• And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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  Sight, Heaven, Earth

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

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• Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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  Two, Spoons, Miserable

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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  Men, Civilization, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Going Away

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.393

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• Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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  House, Humans, Human Beings

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• Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

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  Men, Creation, Witness

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• Oh! Everything I loved!

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• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

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  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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  Moving, Idols, Dollars

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• France is great because she is France.

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  France

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Les Misérables”, p.852, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Joy is the reflex of terror.

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  Joy, Reflexes, Terror

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.488, Modern Library

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• Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

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  Children, Heart, Years

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• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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  Mean, Becoming One, Genius

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• Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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  Wisdom, Prayer, Views

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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• Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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  Wisdom, Memories, Moving

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6158, Delphi Classics

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• To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

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  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.142, 谷月社

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• There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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  Soul, Darkness, Wickedness

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• Women are more credulous than men.

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  Trust, Men

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