Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 4

• Love is reducing the universe to one being.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Reducing, Universe

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• There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Spring, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.464, Wordsworth Editions

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• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

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

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  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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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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• Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Struggle, Action

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

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

  Victor Hugo

  Dying, Terrible

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Reflection, Inspire, Delight

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

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

  Victor Hugo

  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.

  Victor Hugo

  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.

  Victor Hugo

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Shadow

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Weed, Men, Farmers

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Paradise, Hell, Rich

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

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiration, Learning, Knowledge

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

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Healing, Teens

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• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Degrees

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

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Decision, Style

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• It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Women, Pretty Woman

  Victor Hugo, John Manson (2001). “The Alps and Pyrenees”, p.94, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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