Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 14

• Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Thinking, Giving

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• It is often our best friends who throw us down.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall

  "Notre Dame of Paris".

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• Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Grief, Sunshine

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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• To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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  Love, Soul, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.637, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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  Flower, Sailing, Bud

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• Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

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  Sun, Logic, Candle

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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  Beauty, Nature, Garden

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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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• Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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  Lying, Wine, Excitement

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• God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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  Flower, Angel, Devil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2967, Delphi Classics

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• What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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  Two, Happened

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• It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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  Three, Letters, Knows

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.651, Modern Library

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• Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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  Beautiful, God, Kings

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

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• There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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  Strong, Philosophy, Hands

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

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• Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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  Wisdom, Flower, Suffering

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial

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• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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  Night, Names, Giving

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

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• If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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  Heart, Giving, Give Me

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

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• I am for religion, against religions.

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  Religion, Against Religion

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• The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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  Bird, Soul, Cages

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

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• A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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  Doe, Movement, March

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12486, Delphi Classics

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• Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

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  Vision, Telescopes, Microscopes

  "Les misérables".

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• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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  Art, Soul, Graves

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• Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

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  Heart, Fate, Night

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

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