Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 28

• The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Fate, People

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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  Men, Liberty, Want

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• In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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  Morning, Heart, Winter

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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  Rope, Les Miserable, Made

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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  Clouds, Tables, Elude

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

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• The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, World, Existence

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5084, Delphi Classics

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• Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

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  Stars, Dark, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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• So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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  Anger, Voice, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics

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• At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

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  Sleep, Angel, Looks

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• To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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  Love Is, Accomplishment, Pearls

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

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  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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  Weight, Common, Divine

  Victor Hugo (1874). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.20

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• There are no rules for felicity.

  Victor Hugo

  Happiness, Felicity

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• He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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  Clothes, Giving, Interesting

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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  Wisdom, Fall, Vanity

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• I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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  Criticism, Critics, Verses

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• There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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  Boredom, Suffering, Hell

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

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• Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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  Stars, Men, Ducks

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

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• One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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  Wisdom, Men, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.303, Victor Hugo

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• If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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  Grandmother, Men, Grandparent

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• Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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  Ideas, Rivers, Flow

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• The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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  Fall, People, Stones

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• Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

  Victor Hugo

  Character, Joy, Faults

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• Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughing, Enthusiasm, Mirth

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2760, Delphi Classics

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