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

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens... view

By: Victor Hugo

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To think of shadows is a serious thing... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Forty is the old age of youth.. view

By: Victor Hugo

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles... view

By: Victor Hugo

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life... view

By: Victor Hugo

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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity.. view

By: Victor Hugo

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach... view

By: Victor Hugo

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing... view

By: Victor Hugo

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised... view

By: Victor Hugo

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees... view

By: Victor Hugo

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores... view

By: Victor Hugo

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