Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 27

• It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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  Sunset, Men, Sunrise

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.49, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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  Girl, Children, Unhappy

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• Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

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  Night, Clouds, Black

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”

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• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Time

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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  Nature, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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  Order, Sometimes, Command

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• They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

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  Stars, Flower, Eye

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

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• She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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  Lovely, Gold, Blonde

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables: World Classic”, p.158, World Classic

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• Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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  Food, Character, People

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• This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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  Philosophical, Heaven, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1894). “The novels, complete and unabridged, of Victor Hugo”

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• That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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  Men, Bishops, Faces

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

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  Dream, Stars, Butterfly

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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  House, Splits, Splendor

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• ...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

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  Block, Destiny, Black

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

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• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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  Nature, Ignorance, Mean

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• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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  Grief, Order, Essence

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

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• The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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  Beautiful, Silence, Moments

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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  Grief, Taken, Men

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.379, Wildside Press LLC

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• His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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  Heart, Men, Compassion

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

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• She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

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  Heart, Order, Hunger

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

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• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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  Brother, Eye, Angel

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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  Believe, Hands, Temples

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

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• The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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  Laughter, Spring, Doors

  "Les misérables".

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• She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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  Sadness, Secret, Obscure

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.25

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• Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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  Fortune Cookie, Bows, Grammar

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

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