Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 6

• Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

  Victor Hugo

  Freedom, Men, Worthy

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

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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  Revolution, Chance, Born

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

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• You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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  Love Is, Suffering, Cosette

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.66

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• A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

  Victor Hugo

  Doe, Movement, March

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12486, Delphi Classics

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• There are no rules for felicity.

  Victor Hugo

  Happiness, Felicity

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• Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Caution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Toleration is the best religion.

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  Wisdom, Diversity, Tolerance

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• There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

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  Heart, Vacuums, Demolition

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.605, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Labor is life; thought is light.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Labor, Thoughts On Life

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• ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.135

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Memories, Imagination

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

  Victor Hugo

  Rope, Les Miserable, Made

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

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• Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

  Victor Hugo

  Truth, Hate, Lying

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

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• The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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  Wisdom, Paradise, Hell

  Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.393, Victor Hugo

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

  Victor Hugo

  Clouds, Tables, Elude

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

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• To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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  Love Is, Accomplishment, Pearls

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• Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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  Wise, Passion, Writing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

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  Cat, Creation, Proof

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

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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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