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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 21

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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

Sacrifice, Summit, Ifs

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

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Daughter, Mother, Son

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.669, Wordsworth Editions

To love is the half of to believe.

Believe, Love Is, Half

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

Victor Hugo (1896). “Dramas”

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Animal, Men, Sometimes

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Dream

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

Passion, Ignorance, Evil

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Wisdom, Wind, Revolution

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.726, Wordsworth Editions

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Past, Giving, Progress

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

God, Men, Devil

"Ruy Blas (Act II, Scene V)". Tragic drama by Victor Hugo, November 8, 1838.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Love, Powerful, True Love

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

Determination, Fall, Science

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

Names, Life Is, Enigma

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Love You, Heart, Trying

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

God, Giving, Revolution

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Spring, Real, Return

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Caps, Dictionary

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Wisdom, Circles, Ideas

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

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Suffering, Height, Ifs

'Contemplations' (1856) bk. 5, no. 26 'Les Malheureux'

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

Children, Secret

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Love, Stars, Men

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

Owl, Larks, Nests

Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Art, Goal, Mind

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Wisdom, Ideas, Mind

Victor Hugo's ppening address to the Peace Congress in Paris, August 21, 1849.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Death, Dream, Wisdom

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