Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 5

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Decision, Style

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• Progress is the life-style of man.

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  Men, Style, Progress

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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 are no rules for felicity.

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  Happiness, Felicity

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

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  Valentines Day, Stars, Flower

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, Labour

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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  Rope, Les Miserable, Made

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Beautiful, Women, Pretty Woman

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

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• Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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  Peace, Discovery, Civilization

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• What love commences can be finished by God alone.

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  Finished

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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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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• We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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  Human Nature, Mankind, Humans

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.782, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Nature, Spring, Heart

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

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  Grandmother, Men, Want

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• I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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  Desire, Lasts, Necks

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

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