Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 33

• You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Believe, Night

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Kissing, Two

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

  Victor Hugo

  Mirrors, Doe, Use

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1314, First Avenue Editions

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• Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas, Visible

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.131, Dawson Bros.

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• If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

  Victor Hugo

  Poverty, Chance, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

  Victor Hugo

  Punishment, Vengeance, Individual

  Victor Hugo (1992). “The Last Day of a Condemned Man: And Other Prison Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

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• A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Military, Civilization, Climate

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• France lost a great novel last night.

  Victor Hugo

  Sex, Night, Lasts

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• The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

  Victor Hugo

  Fear, Night, Laughing

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.805, Modern Library

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• Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

  Victor Hugo

  Hurt, Lying, People

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• Love is a fault; so be it.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Faults

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.117, First Avenue Editions

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• Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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  Science, Understanding, Avalanches

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

  Victor Hugo

  Saint, Sin, Commit

  Victor Hugo (2014). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

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• He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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  Apples, Tree, Fruit

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Goats, Too Much

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.593, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Ladders

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• Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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  Men, Benefits, May

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

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• The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

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  Wisdom, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

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• God in his harmony has equal ends
  For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
  For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
  Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
  And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
  With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
  The somber human troop.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Women, School

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

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• A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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  Women, Men, Unfortunate

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.253, Dawson Bros.

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• We are for religion against the religions.

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  Wisdom, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Glasses, Sea

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

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• There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Errors, Way

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, Development

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12469, Delphi Classics

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