Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 20

• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

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

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• There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

  Victor Hugo

  Passionate, Affection, Rapture

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• What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Curiosity, Fright

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.635, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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  Wisdom, United, Eloquence

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• Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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  Love, Brother, Stars

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• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Past, Echoes

  Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

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  Memories, Aroma, Recollection

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• Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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  Art, Moving, Artist

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• Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Men, Angry Man

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• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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  Kings, People, Paving The Way

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• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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  Female, Pebbles, Lovers

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• We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

  Victor Hugo

  Spite

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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  Victor Hugo

  Doe, Action, Commit

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• Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

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  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.669, Wordsworth Editions

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• All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Color, Sky

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• where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Summit, Ifs

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

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• A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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  Army, Ideas, Invasion

  'Histoire d'un Crime' (written 1851-2, published 1877) pt. 5, sect. 10

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• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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  Religious, Book, Race

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

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• What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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  Destiny, Men, Influence

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• To love is the half of to believe.

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  Believe, Love Is, Half

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• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

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  Beautiful, Heaven, New Life

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• Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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  Heart, Light, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3098, Delphi Classics

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• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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  Brother, War, Mean

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