Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 34

• The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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  Men, Excellence, Upright Man

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

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• What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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  Running, Heart, Giving

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

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• Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

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  Order, Ideas, Inspire

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• Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Sublime, Needs

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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  Darkness, Sun, Strange

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

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• To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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  Men, Wind, Abuse

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• Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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  Philosophy, Energy, Should

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

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• Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

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  Grief, Plunge, Cosette

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

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• These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

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  Two, Long, Touching

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

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• His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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  Art, Judgement, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

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• It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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  Men, Shadow, Shapes

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

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• We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

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  Real, Soul, Vices

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

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• We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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  Real, Silence, Soul

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

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• There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

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  Sunrise, Depth, Critical Moments

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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  Greatness, Doe, Shelves

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.11, Modern Library

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• The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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  Eye, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.127

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• Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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  Struggle, Heart, Ideas

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• He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

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  Pain, Causes, Left

  Victor Hugo (1996). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, Laurel Leaf

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• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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  Kings, France, Ends

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• There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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  Stars, Distance, People

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1473, My Ebook Publishing House

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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  Christmas, Night, Air

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• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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  Funny, Birthday, Men

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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• In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Opera

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• There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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  People, Praying

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• The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

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  Expression, Law, Names

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

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