Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 18

• Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

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  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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  Book, Men, Doe

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.9

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• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

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  Mother, Children, Eye

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• God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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  God, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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  Friendship, Home, Years

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• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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  Vanity, Stupidity

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• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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  Men, Thinking, Self

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• With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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  Weed, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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  Wisdom, Civilization, Names

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

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• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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  Wish, Extravagance, Useless

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

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  Heart, Destiny, Men

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• Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Radiance

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

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• Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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  Men, Bread, Affirmation

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• God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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  Men, Action

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• Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

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  Heart, Love Is, Roots

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• He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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  Reality, Pockets, Found

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• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

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

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• Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

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  Heart, Tree, Weight

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• The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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  Simple, Symphony, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 339, 1895.

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• During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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  Crush, Art, Night

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• Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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  Philosophy, Desire, Microscopes

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1064, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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  Race, Progress, Brutality

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

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• Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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  Believe, Science, Mad

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