Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 4

• God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Spring, Flower

  Victor Hugo “The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo”

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• The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

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  Sex, Simple, Men

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1167, Booklassic

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• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, School, Common Sense

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• I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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  Writing, Fighting, Hands

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• To learn to read is to light a fire.

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  Fire, Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Errors, Truth Is

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• Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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  Wisdom, Struggle, Action

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• Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

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  Love, Sexy, Roots

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• Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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  Science, Heaven, Magnificence

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• Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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  Love Is, Reducing, Universe

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• Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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  Wisdom, People, Perfection

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• Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

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• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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  Sad, Being Sad, Melancholy

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5393, Delphi Classics

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• Conscience is God present in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Conscience

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• Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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  Soul, Trying, Body

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

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• Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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  Life, Wisdom, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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  Peace, War, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

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• God knows better than we do what we need.

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  Needs, God Knows, Knows

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.983, Wordsworth Editions

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• You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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  Stars, Two, Looks

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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  Men, Merit, Deceiving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.66, Booklassic

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  To love another person is to see the face of God.

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  Love, Wedding, Happy Valentines Day

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, Xist Publishing

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• The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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  Reflection, Inspire, Delight

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.495, Modern Library

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• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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  Distance, Quality, Range

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• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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  Angel, Suffering, Awareness

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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