French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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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.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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