The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Quotes
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“Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that the city considered tearing it down. Luckily for us, Victor Hugo heard about the plans to destroy it and wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame to raise awareness of its glorious history. And, by golly, did it work! Parisians campaigned to save it, and the building was repaired and polished to the pristine state you find today.”
― Anna and the French Kiss
― Anna and the French Kiss
![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with the power of God.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of bell-towers - diffuse over the whole the murmur of half a million people - the eternal lament of the river - the endless sighing of the wind - the grave and distant quartet of the four forests placed upon the hills, in the distance, like immense organpipes - extinguish to a half light all in the central chime that would otherwise be too harsh or too shrill; and then say whetehr you know of anything in the world more rich, more joyous, more golden, more dazzling, than this tumult of bells and chimes - this furnace of music - these thousands of brazen voices, all singing together in flutes of stone three hundred feet high, than this city which is but one orchestra - this symphony which roars like a tempest.”
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![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“A minute afterwards he appeared upon the upper platform, still bearing the gipsy [sic] in his arms, still running wildly along, still shouting 'Sanctuary!' and the crowd still applauding. At last he made a third appearance on the summit of the tower of the great bell. From thence he seemed to show exultingly to the whole city the fair creature he had saved; and his thundering voice, that voice which was heard so seldom, and which he never heard at all, thrice repeated with frantic vehemence, even in the very clouds, 'Sactuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary! The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
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![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under its white robes, in the last struggles of death; then again he dropped it upon the archdeacon, stretched a shapeless mass at the foot of the tower, and he said with a sob that heaved his deep breast to the bottom, 'Oh-all that I've ever loved!' The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
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![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Behold at a sign from heaven, because it comes from the Sun itself, those thousand churches trembling all at once. At first a faint tinkling passes from church to church...see how, all of a sudden, at the same moment, there rises from each steeple as it were a column of sound, a cloud of harmony. At first the vibration of each bell rises straight, pure, and in a manner separate from that of the others, into the splendid morning sky; then swelling by degrees, they blend, melt, intermingle, and amalgamate into a magnificent concert...this sea of harmony, however, is not chaos... This is truly an opera well worth listening to...In this case the city sings....Say if you know anything in the world more rich, more joyful, more golden, more overwhelming than that tumult of bells, than that furnace of music, than those ten thousand voices of bronze singing all at once from flutes of stone three hundred feet high, than that city which has become an orchestra, than that symphony which roars like a storm.”
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![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“We have here very high towers; a man who should fall from one would be dead before he touched the pavement; when it shall please you to have me to fall, you will not have to even utter a word, a glance will suffice.”
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![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“The archdeacon silently contemplated the gigantic building for a while, then sighed as he stretched out his right hand towards the printed book lying open on his table and his left hand towards Notre-Dame, and looked sadly from the book to the church. ‘Alas!’ he said, ‘this will kill that.”
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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