Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 5

• What makes night within us may leave stars.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.79, Mondial

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• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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  Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion

  Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

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• God knows better than we do what we need.

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  Needs, God Knows, Knows

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.983, Wordsworth Editions

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• Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

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  Philosophy, Microscopes

  Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.398, Oxford University Press, UK

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• To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

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  Religious, Future, Science

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• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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  Men, Sight, Long

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• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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  Wisdom, Children, Artist

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• There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

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  Heart, Secret, Secrecy

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• The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

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  Love, Romantic, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.612, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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  Nature, Spring, Heart

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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  Grandmother, Men, Want

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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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• Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

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  Vision, Telescopes, Microscopes

  "Les misérables".

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• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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  Angel, Suffering, Awareness

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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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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• If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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  Eye, Men, Should

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Ninety-Three: Works Of Hugo”, p.359, 谷月社

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• Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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  Dropping, Wit, Pun

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• Progress is the life-style of man.

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  Men, Style, Progress

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• Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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  Wisdom, Soul

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• Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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  Mind, Doubt, Shadow

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• To learn to read is to light a fire.

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  Fire, Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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• Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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  Angel, Doors, Heaven

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