Hands Quotes by Victor Hugo

27 Hands quotes by Victor Hugo

When Hugo turns his pen toward the human hand, he uncovers a symbol of both toil and tenderness. These 27 lines weave his nineteenth‑century voice into a portrait of gesture, labor, and the quiet power we hold in our palms.

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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

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We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea…

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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is…

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that…

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on…

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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will;…

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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes…

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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'…

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think…

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed…

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which…

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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be…

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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and…

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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is…

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

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These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic…

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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and…

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…

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“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

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“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”

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“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

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Love is a fault; so be it.

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