Victor Hugo: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 2)

Victor Hugo war französischer Poet und Autor. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Variante: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Quelle: Les Misérables

“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“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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Victor Hugo

Quelle: Quatrevingt-Treize

“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”

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Victor Hugo buch Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame

Quelle: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.”

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Victor Hugo Hernani

Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!
Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Hernani#ACTE_4

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Variante: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Quelle: Les Misérables

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”

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Victor Hugo

Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Quatre-vingt-treize_-_III%2C_7#V_LE_CACHOT
Ninety-Three (1874)

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Variante: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Quelle: Les Misérables

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Variante: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Quelle: Les Misérables

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

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Victor Hugo

Variante: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

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Victor Hugo

Unpublished notebook from 1845-50. Published in Seebacher (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 10, p. 158 (Laffont, 1989). English translation from Robb, Victor Hugo p. 249 (Norton, 1997).

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

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Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

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Victor Hugo buch Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame

Quelle: The Hunchback of Notre Dame