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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 19

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Book, Ignorance, Long

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.3, Victor Hugo

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Jesus, Light, Two

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

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Jesus, Law, Doe

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Success, Doctors, Succeed

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

Paris, Sublime, Depth

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Paris, Humans, Err Is Human

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.439, Wordsworth Editions

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Depression, Light, Soul

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

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

Wall, Doors, Agony

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

Fire, Wind, Broken

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6889, Delphi Classics

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Wish, Progress, Revolution

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

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Small Changes, Recognition, Popularity

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Men, Ugly Things, May

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

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

Horse, Journey, Hands

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

Pieces, Popularity, Faded

Right is right only when entire.

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.450, Wordsworth Editions

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer, Ignorance, August

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Spite

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Wisdom, Soul, World

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.21

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

Love, Positive, Romantic

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Zero, Philosophy, Men

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Passionate, Affection, Rapture

Progress is the stride of God.

God, Progress, Stride

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

Night, Darkness, Library

Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

Hero, Eye, Feet

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

"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

Running, Animal, Risk

"The Man Who Laughs: L'Homme Qui Rit".

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