Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• To love beauty is to see light.

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  Beauty, Spiritual, Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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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.

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  Anger, Voice, Mountain

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

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• Monastic incarceration is castration.

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  Castration, Incarceration

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

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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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• 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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• Right is right only when entire.

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

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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  Simple, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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  Children, Men, Darkness

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

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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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• If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

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  Soul, Darkness, Les Mis

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: Works Answer Words, 1862.

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• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

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