Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the...

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the...

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the...

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the...

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of...

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of...

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom...

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom...

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as...

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as...

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being...

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being...

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not...

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not...

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

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

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the...

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the...

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more,...

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more,...

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the...

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the...