The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
- To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- A war between Europeans is a civil war.
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- 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.
- 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 compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
- To love beauty is to see light.
- He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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