Tag: Victor Hugo
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Victor Hugo
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor Hugo
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
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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
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo