Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 32

• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Keeping Secrets

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Food, Sea

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• For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Deeds Done, Done

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.455, Wordsworth Editions

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• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

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• The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Growing Up, Believe

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

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• The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

  Victor Hugo

  Blessed, Monsters, Saint

  Victor Hugo (1849). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.142

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• by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

  Victor Hugo

  Demon, Made, Priests

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Sweet, Profound, Heaven

  "Les miserables".

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• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Bird, Flying

  "Les Miserables".

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• There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall, Tree, Rope

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.324, Modern Library

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• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

  Victor Hugo

  Self, Atheism, Advancement

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

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• Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Giving Up, Struggle

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Sheep, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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  Strength, Time, Peace

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• ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Morning, Memories

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

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• The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

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  Stars, Heart, Angel

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

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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• But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Victory, Devil

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• The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Needs, Bread, Ideals

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2640, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Errors, Sides

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

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• He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

  Victor Hugo

  Book

  Victor Hugo (1909). “Les Miserables”

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Believe, Love You

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• One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas

  "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

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• I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Air, Water

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• The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

  Victor Hugo

  Father, Circles, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.343, BookCaps Study Guides

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