French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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