Victor Hugo: Citations en anglais

Victor Hugo était écrivain français. Citations en anglais.
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“The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had nothewould be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has aThisof the infinite is God.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“France is great because she is France.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

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

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“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke."

Les Miserables”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius…”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Variante: What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Source: Les Misérables

“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables