French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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