Tag: Victor Hugo
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo
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My childhood began, as everybody’s childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo