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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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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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