Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 29

• A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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  Shadow, Throat, Hard

  Victor Hugo (1893). “The Novels, Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo: Les misérables”

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• To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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  Paris, Study, Born

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.154, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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  Strong, Men, Blood

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• A wedding is not house-keeping.

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  Wedding, House

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

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• At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

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  Friendship, Running, Wine

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• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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  Wisdom, Stars, Night

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

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• It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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  Sleep, Bed, Supper

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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  Feet, Adorable, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.872, Modern Library

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• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

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  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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  Shadow, Looks, Contemplating

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• All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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  Animal, Sea, Land

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

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• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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  Queens, Charm, Meter

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• Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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  Clothes, Egotism

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• It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

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  War, Government, Europe

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• One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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  Bored, Sometimes, Ought

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• The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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  Doctors, Doors, Should

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• ...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

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  Moving, Next, Theater

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

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• Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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  Garden, Names, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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• I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

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  Misery, Concern, Repeats

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2093, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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  Needs, Praying

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

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• For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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  Gossip, Doe, Affair

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• The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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  Lying, Elements, Poetic

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• There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

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  Way, Morrow, One Way

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

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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. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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