Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 16

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Leadership, Waste

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• A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

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  Men, Blind, Incomplete

  Victor Hugo (1887). “Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others”

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• No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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  Adversity, Men, Unhappy

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• To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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  Kissing, Love Is, Audacity

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• Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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  Mother, Dream, Nature

  Victor Hugo (1845). “The Rhine”, p.128

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• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

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  Crush, Stars, Fall

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• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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  Men, Ideas, Doe

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• Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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  Wisdom, Punishment, Vengeance

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• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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  Strong, Rights, People

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• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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  Strong, Intellectual, Bitter Words

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• I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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  Children, Race, Names

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• Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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  Wise, Heart, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.128, Wildside Press LLC

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• One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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  Dream, White, Order

  Victor Hugo (18??). “Les miserables. Pt. 1”

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• He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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  Two, Lines, Saws

  "Les Miserables".

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• Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Simple

  Victor Hugo (1867). “The Toilers of the Sea: A Novel”, p.20

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• The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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  Art, Writing, Divine

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

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Together

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

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• At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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  Evil, Depth, Poor

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.72

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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  Art, Nature, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”

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• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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  Thinking, Strive, Cases

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• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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  Nature, Animal, Men

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

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  Jesus, Christ, Pardon

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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  Fighting, Museums, People

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• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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  Time, Science, Past

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