Victor Hugo: Citations en anglais

Victor Hugo était écrivain français. Citations en anglais.
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“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”

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Victor Hugo livre Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné

Source: The Last Day of a Condemned Man

“There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children."

from chapter VIII of Les Miserables”

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Victor Hugo

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.”

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Victor Hugo

“God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.'
'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.”

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Victor Hugo

“Are you afraid of the good you might do?”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Another story must begin!”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He who despairs is wrong.”

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Victor Hugo

Source: Les Misérables, tome I/3

“… there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables”

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Victor Hugo livre Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“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.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”

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Victor Hugo livre Notre-Dame de Paris

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame