Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 8

• Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, People, Perfection

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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!

  Victor Hugo

  God, Fall, Winning

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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Knowledge, Science, Penetration

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

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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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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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  Strength, Time, Powerful

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Lonely, Kindness, Love Is

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

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  Misery, Concern, Repeats

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

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• England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

  Victor Hugo

  Bible, Book, Two

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• Another story must begin!

  Victor Hugo

  Stories

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• The sewer is the conscience of the city.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Water, Sewers

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.857, Wordsworth Editions

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• It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Night, Sky

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

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• Love is the only future God offers.

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  Love, Love Is, Offers

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• The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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  Infinity, Infinite, Thirst

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• Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Waiting

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• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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  Civilization, Imagination, Quality

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

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• I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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  Patriotic, Simple, Humanity

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

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• Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

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• What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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  Soul, Addresses, Gloomy

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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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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• Reality in strong doses frightens.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Reality, Dose

  Victor Hugo “The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo”

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• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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  Grass, Turkish, Grows

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• If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

  Victor Hugo

  Cutting, Men, Paris

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• When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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  Heart, Eye, Dry

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.86, First Avenue Editions

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