Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 35

• To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Wicked, Succeed

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

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• At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Passion, Night

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

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• Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Brain

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Lost Love, Heart

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• Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

  Victor Hugo

  Yesterday, Forever, May

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• God whose gifts in gracious flood
  Unto all who seek are sent,
  Only asks you to be good
  And is content.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodness, Flood, Gracious

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Crush, Night

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Night, Lips

  "Les misérables".

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• [T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Equilibrium

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

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• I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, War, Half

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, History

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

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• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  Victor Hugo

  Ill Will, Soul, Tasks

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• Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

  Victor Hugo

  Air, Blood, Long

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Poems by Victor Hugo”, p.314, Victor Hugo

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• And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Love You, Believe, Littles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.778, Wordsworth Editions

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• If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

  Victor Hugo

  Suffering, Ifs

  Contemplations 'Les Malheureux'

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• ...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Doe, Bread

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

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• His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

  Victor Hugo

  Fog, Two, Whole Life

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2957, Delphi Classics

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• Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Winter, Men

  Victor Hugo, Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1862). “Les Misérables”, p.155

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• There are things stronger than the strongest man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Stronger, Strongest

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.483, Modern Library

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• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Views, Sublime

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12464, Delphi Classics

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• In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Animal, Ethics

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
  Sirius appears, and on the horizon black
  Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Track, Black

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Ignorance, Blood

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

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• While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

  Victor Hugo

  Friday, Cake, Tuesday

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1116, My Ebook Publishing House

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