Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 26

• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

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  Profound, Lasts, Firsts

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

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• O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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  Angel, Night, Sky

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• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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  Wisdom, Animal, Men

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• An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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  Tears, Boiling Over, Accepting

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

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

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  Party, Europe, Civilization

  "Océan. Tas de pierres". Book by Victor Hugo, 1942.

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

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  Dream, Positive Thinking, Lost Ones

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

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  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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  Beauty, Wisdom, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions

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• One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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  Women, Yield, Magnanimity

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.205, Wildside Press LLC

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• I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

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  Strong, Kindness, Believe

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• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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  Wisdom, Blessing, Boredom

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

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• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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  Brother, Men, Evil

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• This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

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  Children, Soul, New Life

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• The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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  Twilight, Dawn, Blind

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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  Fate, Thinking, Mouths

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.695, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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  Eye, Night, World

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• My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

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  Country, Revenge, Europe

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• There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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  Darkness, Pressure

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.102

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• Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

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  Spirit, Moral, Rebellion

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

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• It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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  Providence, Misfortunes

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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  Eye, Kissing, Fire

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.543, BookCaps Study Guides

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• First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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  Firsts, Problem, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

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  Night, Light, Climbing

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