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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 3

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Hands, Fists, Peace And Love

"Toilers of the Sea".

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

Stars, Eye, Passion

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

Dream, Thinking, Knows

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Wisdom, Vices, Veils

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Art, Philosophy, Crazy

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Book, Writing, Men

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Inspirational, Exercise, Imagination

"Robb, Victor Hugo". Book by Graham Robb, p. 249, 1997.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Wisdom, Weight, Conscience

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5899, Delphi Classics

I think, therefore I doubt.

Thinking, Doubt

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Fear, Criminals, Use

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Love, Life, Happiness

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Life, Wisdom, Real

Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

God, Wisdom, Prayer

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Love, Dark, Les Mis

Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Sunshine, Winter, Countenance

Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables Vol. II, Book 5–8”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Thanksgiving, Prayer, Wings

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Wisdom, Spring, Flower

Victor Hugo “The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo”

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

Love Is, Reducing, Universe

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Education, School, Common Sense

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

Sex, Simple, Men

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1167, Booklassic

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

Dying, Terrible

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Wisdom, Struggle, Action

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Beautiful, Errors, Truth Is

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