Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 8

• True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

  Victor Hugo

  Mystery, Thinker, Clearness

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• A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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  World, Persons, Trapped

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• The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

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  Terrible, Motive, Response

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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  Law, Boredom, Submit

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

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• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

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• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Ends

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• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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  War, Shame, Glory

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• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

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  Women, Bravery, Curiosity

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.3, Mondial

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• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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  Aim

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• The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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  Country, Hero, Fighting

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.54, Dawson Bros.

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• Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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  Mind, Doubt, Shadow

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• Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• To rise at six, to dine at ten,
  To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
  Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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  Sleep, Men, Six

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• Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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  Fever, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

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  Death, Men, Unknown Things

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.30, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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  Grass, Turkish, Grows

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• Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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  Les Mis, Study, Les Miserable

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

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• Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Return

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.779, BookCaps Study Guides

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• These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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  Love Is, Joy, Felicity

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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  Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion

  Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

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• Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

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  Brother, Dawn, Entering

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1073, First Avenue Editions

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