“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy. Upon those chairs in disarray, among those flowers… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . .… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
