As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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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.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- 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.
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Toleration is the best religion.
- What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- 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.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- I did get a degree in special education.