Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 10

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Horse, Women

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• He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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  Stars, Grief, Looks

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.16

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• God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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  Hope, Ignorance, Men

  Victor Hugo (1964). “Things seen”

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• To have lied is to have suffered.

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  Lied

  Victor Hugo (1894*). “The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo”

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• To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

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  Lying, Deceit, Littles

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.886, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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  Wisdom, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

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  Rocks, Agony, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

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• Habit is the nursery of errors.

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  Learning, Errors, Nursery

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• Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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  Giving, Useless

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

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  God, Flirty, Flirting

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• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

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  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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• The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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  Art, Intelligent, Luxury

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.42, Modern Library

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• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

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  God, Pride, Moon

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• Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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  Perseverance, Fate, Goal

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• We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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  Wisdom, Insult, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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  Money, Men, Wealth

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• There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

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  Teacher, Atheist, Religion

  "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

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• Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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  Suicide, World, Ends

  Victor Hugo (1852). “Napoleon the Little”, p.214

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• Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

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  Love Is, Men, Foolishness

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.911, Wordsworth Editions

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• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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  Men, Impossible, Like Me

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• He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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  Book, Safe, Cold

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.840, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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  Wrinkles, Light, Grace

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• Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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  Progress, Stage, Accomplished

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1294, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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  Wisdom, Sacred, Communion

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

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• Morality is truth in full bloom.

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  Morality

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

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