Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 15

• I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

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  Morning, Lying, Twilight

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• It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

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  Grief, Men, Sides

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

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• A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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  Quality, Prudence, Ifs

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• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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  Dream, Self, Mind

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• There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

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  Atheist, Powerful, Believe

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1176, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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  Kings, Wind, Desert

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

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  Running, Cat, Fate

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

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• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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  Progress, Splendid, Daring

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• Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

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  Faith, Care, Take Care

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• The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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  Heart, House, Hatred

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• He who despairs is wrong.

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  Despair

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• When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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  Truth, Honesty, Speak

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• The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

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  Left Handed, Left, Inconvenient

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1034, Modern Library

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• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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  Beauty, Humanity, Religion

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• Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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  Dirt, Materials, Misplaced

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• ...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

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  Sleep, House, Together

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

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• This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

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  Wise, Reality, Facts

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• Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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  Real, Two, Soul

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• The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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  Art, Men, Order

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo”

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• The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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  Real, Soul, Needs

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• There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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  Character, Sea, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.892, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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  Kindness, Sadness, Excuse

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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  Men, Strange, Cosette

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

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• Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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  Eye, Curiosity, Gluttony

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

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• Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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  Luck, Fortune, Fortunate

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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