Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 13

• Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.597, BookCaps Study Guides

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• History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

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  Truth, Legends

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• ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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  Confused, Infamous, Unfortunate

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

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• The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

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  Stars, Memories, Heart

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

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• I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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  Tails, Lions

  Victor Hugo (2012). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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• The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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  Sleep, Clouds, Bird

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Be happy without picking flaws.

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  Flaws

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.238, Wildside Press LLC

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• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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  Inspiring, Heart, Charity

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• If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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  Educational, Philosophy, Sun

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• My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

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  Death, Morning, Next

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• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

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  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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  Book, Letters, Stones

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

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  Love You, Being In Love, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.65

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• When liberty returns, I will return.

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  Liberty, Return

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• Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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  Brother, War, Mean

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

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• What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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  What Matters, Mind, Ears

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• Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Under Sentence of Death”, p.112, Victor Hugo

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• For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

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  Dog, Kings, Cat

  Victor Hugo (1917). “The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction”

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• The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

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  Simple, Doctors, Oil

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• A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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  Impossible, Absurd, Translations

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• . . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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  Song, Remains

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.97

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• Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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  Theatre, Life Is, Entrances

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.726, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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  Wisdom, Light, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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  Real, Vices, Prejudice

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

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• Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

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  Beauty, Women, Clouds

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