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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 8

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Youth, Stranger

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

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

Soul, Addresses, Gloomy

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Les Mis, Study, Les Miserable

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

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

Brother, Dawn, Entering

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1073, First Avenue Editions

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Art, Intelligent, Luxury

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.42, Modern Library

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Thinking, Thread

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.1110, Victor Hugo

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

Sleep, Men, Six

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Death, Men, Unknown Things

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.30, My Ebook Publishing House

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Grass, Turkish, Grows

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Music, Wisdom, Art

Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

Giving, Useless

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

Love Is, Joy, Felicity

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

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

Thinking, Should Have, Calling

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion

Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

God, Flirty, Flirting

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

Ignorance, Ends

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Thinking, People, Perfect

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Wisdom, Insult, Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

Mind, Doubt, Shadow

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Wisdom, Children, Men

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

Love, Heart, Blindness

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Patriotic, Simple, Humanity

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2093, BookCaps Study Guides

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love, Life, Positive

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