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" There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. "

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" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "

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" Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. "

" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

" It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. "

Victor Hugo

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Pleasant

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

" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "

" Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. "

" A war between Europeans is a civil war. "

" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "

" I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. "

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

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

" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "

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

" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "

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

" Taste is the common sense of genius. "

" Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. "

" Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. "

Victor Hugo

Done

Funny

" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "

" How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. "

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

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

" Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. "

" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "

" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "

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

Victor Hugo

Ignorant

Aware

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

" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "