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Victor Hugo Quotes

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Dear God! How beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace  (Victor Hugo Quotes) He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life  (Victor Hugo Quotes) I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!  (Victor Hugo Quotes) I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, and the stars through his soul  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander  (Victor Hugo Quotes) The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both  (Victor Hugo Quotes) The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves  (Victor Hugo Quotes) The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate  (Victor Hugo Quotes) The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human  (Victor Hugo Quotes) The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves  (Victor Hugo Quotes) The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness  (Victor Hugo Quotes) There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson  (Victor Hugo Quotes) There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing  (Victor Hugo Quotes) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come  (Victor Hugo Quotes) To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it  (Victor Hugo Quotes) We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution  (Victor Hugo Quotes) We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present  (Victor Hugo Quotes) Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great  (Victor Hugo Quotes) When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide  (Victor Hugo Quotes) When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age  (Victor Hugo Quotes) All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come  (Victor Hugo Quotes)
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