Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 12

• A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

  Victor Hugo

  Cynic, Sewers

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.858, Wordsworth Editions

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• To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

  Victor Hugo

  Hypocrisy, Suffering, Torture

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

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• In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Light, Heat

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• Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Taken, Destiny

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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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• God made only water, but man made wine.

  Victor Hugo

  Food, Wine, Men

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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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  Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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  Style, Substance, Surface

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• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  Victor Hugo

  Taste, Action, Democratic

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• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Ideas, Substance

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• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Historical, Civil War

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• Loving is half of believing.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Believe, Half

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• Emotion is always new.

  Victor Hugo

  Emotion

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5405, Delphi Classics

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• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

  Victor Hugo

  Honor, Gold, Fool

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• To think of shadows is a serious thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Shadow, Serious Things

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

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• The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Romantic, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.612, Wordsworth Editions

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• Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Emotional, Feelings

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• A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Feet, Profound

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• He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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  Hands, Long, Impossible

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Drama, Spring

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• Despotism is a long crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Long, Crime, Despotism

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Monastic incarceration is castration.

  Victor Hugo

  Castration, Incarceration

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

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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  Society, Trying, Republic

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