The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist

The ideal and the beautiful are identical.. view

By: Victor Hugo

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour... view

By: Victor Hugo

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Toleration is the best religion... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions... view

By: Victor Hugo

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone... view

By: Victor Hugo

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The wicked envy and hate.. view

By: Victor Hugo

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