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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 12

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

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

Love, Children, Father

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

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Society, Trying, Republic

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

What Matters, Mind, Ears

Be happy without picking flaws.

Flaws

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.238, Wildside Press LLC

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Honor, Gold, Fool

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

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

Lying, Emotional, Feelings

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

Heart, Giving, Give Me

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

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Thinking, Shadow, Serious Things

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

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Death, Feet, Profound

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

Writing, Fighting, Hands

God made only water, but man made wine.

Food, Wine, Men

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Love, Romantic, Two

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.612, Wordsworth Editions

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Book, Safe, Cold

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.840, BookCaps Study Guides

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

War, Historical, Civil War

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Wisdom, Art, Kings

Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Castration, Incarceration

Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.130

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

Song, Drama, Spring

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Book, Letters, Stones

Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Inspiring, Heart, Charity

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

Grief, Men, Sides

Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

Educational, Philosophy, Sun

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

Dream, Fall, Heart

Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

Love You, Being In Love, Thinking

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.65

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

World, Persons, Trapped

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Stars, Grief, Looks

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.16

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