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Victor Hugo Quotes

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French Author, Writer February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885

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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner. Victor Hugo
He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. “These fashions have come round again,” he said, “old things are all the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood, Victor Hugo
When a great figure passed through a city of Burgundy or Champagne, the corporation of the city turned out to deliver an address and present him with four silver goblets in which there were four wines. On the first goblet he read the inscription “monkey wine,” on the second “lion wine,” on the third “sheep wine,” on the fourth “swine wine.” These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, which enlivens; the second, which irritates; the third, which... Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "He did not study God; he was dazzled by him."
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him. Victor Hugo
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231) Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!"
Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing! Victor Hugo
...any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. Victor Hugo
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. Victor Hugo
He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world. Victor Hugo
Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one. Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in..."
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with..."
The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast. Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him..."
To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection. Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his..."
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo quote: "As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great..."
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. Victor Hugo

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