Tag: Victor Hugo
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Victor Hugo
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo
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I would have liked to be – indeed, I should have been – a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo
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Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Victor Hugo