Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 21

• She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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  Passion, Ignorance, Evil

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

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• The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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  Wisdom, Wind, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.726, Wordsworth Editions

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• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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  Love, Powerful, True Love

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• Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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  Dream

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• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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  Love You, Heart, Trying

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• Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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  Spring, Real, Return

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

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  Letting Go, Doe, Pursuit

  "Les misérables".

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• We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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  Simple, Fire, Iron

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

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• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (1896). “Dramas”

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• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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  Animal, Men, Sometimes

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• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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  Wisdom, Circles, Ideas

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

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• Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

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  Passion, Love Is, Thinking

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

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• If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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  Suffering, Height, Ifs

  'Contemplations' (1856) bk. 5, no. 26 'Les Malheureux'

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• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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  Past, Giving, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

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• God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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  God, Men, Devil

  "Ruy Blas (Act II, Scene V)". Tragic drama by Victor Hugo, November 8, 1838.

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• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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  Children, Secret

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

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• To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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  God, Giving, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

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• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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  Caps, Dictionary

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• The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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  Owl, Larks, Nests

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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  I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

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  Love, Stars, Men

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• Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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  Names, Life Is, Enigma

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• Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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  Determination, Fall, Science

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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  Flower, Angel, Care

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

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• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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  Art, Goal, Mind

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• Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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  Death, Dream, Wisdom

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