Poet Victor Hugo

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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
To love beauty is to see light.
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.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
Toleration is the best religion.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A library implies an act of faith.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Conscience is God present in man.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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