Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Angel, Doors, Heaven

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• Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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  Lying, Wine, Excitement

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• Monastic incarceration is castration.

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  Castration, Incarceration

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.130

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• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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  Thinking, Hands, Heaven

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

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• Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

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  God, Fall, Winning

  "The Hamilton Speaker (The Battle of Waterloo)". Book edited by Oliver Ernesto Branch, 1878.

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• I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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  Writing, Fighting, Hands

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• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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  Progress, Splendid, Daring

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• Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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  Men, Merit, Deceiving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.66, Booklassic

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• Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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  Life, Wisdom, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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• On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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  Wisdom, Philosopher, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2609, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

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  Knowledge, Science, Penetration

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.766, Modern Library

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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  Unjust, Way, Reason

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• I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

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  Morning, Loving You, Littles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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  Struggle, Hero, Men

  Victor Hugo (1914). “The novels”

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• I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Calling

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• When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

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  Ideas

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• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  Victor Hugo

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• Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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  Men, Killing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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  Men, Pistols, Triggers

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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  Hypocrisy, Facts, Horrible

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.175, 谷月社

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• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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  Sad, Being Sad, Melancholy

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5393, Delphi Classics

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