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Letter "V" » Victor Hugo Quotes
«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.»
«Before undergoing a serious surgical operation, put your affairs in order - you may survive»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
operation, surgical, surgical operation, undergoing
«Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.»
«From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
displays, eagle, food for thought, manifest, oyster, oysters, portrayal, portrayals, reflections, several, swine, The Eagle, The Tiger, tiger, visible
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
armed, bigotry, claw, clawing, cling, condemned, fateful, ghosts, grapple, grappled, grappling, perpetual, prejudice, shade, shades, superstition, tenaciously, The Throat, throat, tooth, unceasingly
«One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.»
«God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
flirt, flirting, flirts, flirt with, The Fool
«No one keeps a secret so well as a child»
«Life is the flower for which love is the honey.»
«Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
40th birthday,
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
forty
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