Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 6

• If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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  Eye, Men, Should

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Ninety-Three: Works Of Hugo”, p.359, 谷月社

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• From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

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  Wisdom, Men, Views

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.810, Wordsworth Editions

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• One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Glasses, Water

  Victor Hugo, Henry Llewellen Williams (jr), Frank Thomas Marzials (1907*). “Works of Victor Hugo: Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned”

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• It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Women, Pretty Woman

  Victor Hugo, John Manson (2001). “The Alps and Pyrenees”, p.94, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• To love beauty is to see light.

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  Beauty, Spiritual, Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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  Love Is, Suffering, Cosette

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.66

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• The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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  Passion, Heart, Heroic

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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  Thinking, Hands, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

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• Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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  Dropping, Wit, Pun

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• I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Calling

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• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• Toleration is the best religion.

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  Wisdom, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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  Freedom, Men, Worthy

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

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• Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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  Struggle, Hero, Men

  Victor Hugo (1914). “The novels”

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• Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

  Victor Hugo

  Salt, Eloquence, Earnestness

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• Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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  Truth, Hate, Lying

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

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• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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  Children, Men, Darkness

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

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• What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

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  Cat, Creation, Proof

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

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• When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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  Infinity, Infinite, Thirst

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• If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

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  Soul, Darkness, Les Mis

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: Works Answer Words, 1862.

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

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  Lonely, Kindness, Love Is

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• What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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  Soul, Addresses, Gloomy

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  Victor Hugo

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