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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 15

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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Atheist, Powerful, Believe

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1176, BookCaps Study Guides

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Wisdom, Paradise, Hell

Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.393, Victor Hugo

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Faith, Care, Take Care

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Art, Men, Order

Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo”

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Heart, Fate, Night

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

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

Believe

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Running, Cat, Fate

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

He who despairs is wrong.

Despair

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Adversity, Men, Unhappy

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

Sleep, House, Together

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

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Quality, Prudence, Ifs

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Progress, Splendid, Daring

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.

Science, Heaven, Magnificence

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

Left Handed, Left, Inconvenient

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1034, Modern Library

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Men, Blind, Incomplete

Victor Hugo (1887). “Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others”

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Mother, Dream, Nature

Victor Hugo (1845). “The Rhine”, p.128

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

Luck, Fortune, Fortunate

Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Wise, Reality, Facts

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Men, Ideas, Doe

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

Real, Soul, Needs

The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

Heart, House, Hatred

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

Men, Strange, Cosette

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

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Kissing, Love Is, Audacity

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Kindness, Sadness, Excuse

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

Real, Two, Soul

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