Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 11

• We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Learning, Journey

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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

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

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• Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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  Hands, Honor, Shadow

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• The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

  Victor Hugo

  Charity, Poverty, Firsts

  "Les Misérables: Fantine".

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• If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

  Victor Hugo

  Break, Pens, Ifs

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• Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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  Civilization, Revolution

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• A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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  Dream, Stars, Flower

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

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Pistols, Triggers

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

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• There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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  Mind, Atheism, Slavery

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Men

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• The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

  Victor Hugo

  Flesh, Surface

  "The Man Who Laughs".

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• Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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  Business, Inspiration, Successful

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• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas, Heroism, Madness

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.205, Dawson Bros.

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• The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Lines, Optical Illusions

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1969, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

  Victor Hugo

  Courage, Heart, May

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5103, Delphi Classics

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• A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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  Ideas, Mind, Sole

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• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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  Honesty, Strange, Speak

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Heart, Vacuums, Demolition

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

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• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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  Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

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• A library implies an act of faith.

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  Library

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

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• Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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  Real, Thinking, Worry

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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  Progress, Brutality, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.58, My Ebook Publishing House

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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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• He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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  Les Mis, Study

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.72, My Ebook Publishing House

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