Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 37

• If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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  America, Love At First Sight, Dancer

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• A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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  Paris, Soul, Preserves

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

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  Dream, Angel, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

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  Wind, Together, Twists

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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  Fall, Light, Years

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.78, Modern Library

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• Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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  Believe, Remembrance, Philosopher

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

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• The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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  Courage, Men, Light

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

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• Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

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  Evil, Soul, Elements

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• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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  Men, Great Men, Seems

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

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  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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• And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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  Sight, Heaven, Earth

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

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• Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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  Sight, Personality, Watches

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.351

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• For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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  Men, People, Ordinary

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

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• Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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  Brother, Hands, Two

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

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  Children, Heart, Years

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• Women are more credulous than men.

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  Trust, Men

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• There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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  Sovereign, Eloquence, Indignation

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.566, Modern Library

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• The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

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  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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  Breathe

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• Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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  Stars, Dark, Clouds

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

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• France is great because she is France.

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  France

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Les Misérables”, p.852, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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  Men, Civilization, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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  Two, Spoons, Miserable

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• Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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  Wisdom, Memories, Moving

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6158, Delphi Classics

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• I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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  Dream, Reality, Aids

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