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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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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.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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