Victor Hugo: Citations en anglais

Victor Hugo était écrivain français. Citations en anglais.
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“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit…. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables