Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 4

• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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  Soul, Trying, Body

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

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• Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

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• Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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  Wisdom, Struggle, Action

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• She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

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  Heart, Order, Hunger

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

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• Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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  Dying, Terrible

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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  Wisdom, Fall, Vanity

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• Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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  Mother, Dream, Nature

  Victor Hugo (1845). “The Rhine”, p.128

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• The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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  Reflection, Inspire, Delight

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.495, Modern Library

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  To love another person is to see the face of God.

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  Love, Wedding, Happy Valentines Day

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, Xist Publishing

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• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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  Stars, Night, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

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• Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Shadow

  Victor Hugo (1938). “Les Miserables: A Novel”

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• The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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  Paradise, Hell, Rich

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• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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  Wisdom, Men, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea”, p.82, Wildside Press LLC

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

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  Sex, Simple, Men

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1167, Booklassic

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• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

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  Wisdom, Spring, Flower

  Victor Hugo “The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo”

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• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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  Inspiration, Learning, Knowledge

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• Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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  Mean, Men, Citizens

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.17

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• When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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  Book, Healing, Teens

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• There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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  Weed, Men, Farmers

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