Tag: Victor Hugo
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I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
Victor Hugo
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo