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
- 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.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- To love another person is to see the face of God.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
- Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
- To love beauty is to see light.
- Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
- The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Best Quotes
- In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
- The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
- The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
- Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
- Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
- My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
- Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
- We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.