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Form Quotes by Victor Hugo
- We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
- Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow…
- A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United…
- To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
- There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic…
- Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
- He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
- The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire…
- Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred…
- Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them…
- The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history…
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