Tag: Victor Hugo
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
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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
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
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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
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
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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
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo