Taste is the common sense of genius.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His...

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His...

I'm religiously opposed to religion

I'm religiously opposed to religion

Life is a voyage.

Life is a voyage.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to...

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to...

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or...

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or...

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle...

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle...

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and...

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and...

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

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

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

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that...

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that...

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out...

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out...

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to...

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to...

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.