Poet Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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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.
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.
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.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
People do not lack strength they lack will.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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