Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 31

• There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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  Desire, Advancement, Moral

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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  Men, Rights, Spirit

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• The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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  Wisdom, Men, Names

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2091, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

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  Battle, Captains, Firsts

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

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  Stars, Eye, Dark

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1097, First Avenue Editions

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• Taste is the common sense of genius.

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  Wisdom, Common Sense, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

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• Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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  Being Sad, Melancholy, Pleasure And Happiness

  Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”

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• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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  Broken, Hatred, Suffering

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• The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

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  Reality, Forgotten, Reality Of Life

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.804, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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  Men, Self, Remembrance

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• The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

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  Heart, Sunshine, Bird

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

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• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

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  Morning, Time, Labyrinth

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• True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

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  Destiny, Men, Important

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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  Vision, Impossible, Unforeseen

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.986, Modern Library

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• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

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  Ocean, Men, Sea

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

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• Algebra applies to the clouds.

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  Clouds, Algebra, Application

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.41

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• Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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  Flower, Love Life, Love Is

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• She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

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  Cute, Dream, Sweet

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1850, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

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  Race, Sky, Cities

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.14

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• Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

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  Fall, Charity, Ought

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• People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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  Stupid, People, Stupidity

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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  Self, Denial, Egotism

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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  Law, Doe, Death Penalty

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• Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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  Party, Taken, Europe

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