My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely

Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in...

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in...

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming...

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming...

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the...

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the...

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

When liberty returns, I will return.

When liberty returns, I will return.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Liberation is not deliverance.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does...

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does...

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one...

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one...

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of...

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of...

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived...

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived...