Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 6

• Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

  Victor Hugo

  Dropping, Wit, Pun

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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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• 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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• 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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• So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

  Victor Hugo

  Anger, Voice, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics

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• To learn to read is to light a fire.

  Victor Hugo

  Fire, Light

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

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Accomplishment, Pearls

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Paradise, Hell

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Vacuums, Demolition

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Doubt, Shadow

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Men, Should

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Suffering, Cosette

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

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• Wisdom is the health of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Soul

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• 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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• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Suffering, Awareness

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

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• Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

  Victor Hugo

  Revolution, Chance, Born

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

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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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• Labor is life; thought is light.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Labor, Thoughts On Life

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Diversity, Tolerance

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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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• I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

  Victor Hugo

  Misery, Concern, Repeats

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2093, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• Right is right only when entire.

  Victor Hugo

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.450, Wordsworth Editions

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