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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 13

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Wisdom, Children, Artist

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Tails, Lions

Victor Hugo (2012). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, p.330, Courier Corporation

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

Beautiful, Night, Light

Victor Hugo (2015). “Under Sentence of Death”, p.112, Victor Hugo

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

Moving, Hands, Soul

Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Wisdom, Sea, Sky

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

Stars, Memories, Heart

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

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

Simple, Doctors, Oil

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Wisdom, Light, Gnats

Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

Beauty, Women, Clouds

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Theatre, Life Is, Entrances

Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.726, Simon and Schuster

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

God, Thinking, Giving

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

Fall

"Notre Dame of Paris".

When liberty returns, I will return.

Liberty, Return

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Work, Eye, Thinking

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

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

Death, Morning, Next

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Lying, Wine, Excitement

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Art, Philosophy, History

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Men, Killing

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

Sun, Logic, Candle

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Real, Vices, Prejudice

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

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Beauty, Nature, Garden

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

Brother, War, Mean

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

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Taste, Action, Democratic

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Real, Grief, Sunshine

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

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