Quotes by Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything,...

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

#Bitterness

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

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

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections,...

#Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are...

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

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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

#Victor Hugo