Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

age
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

-Victor Hugo

age
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

-Victor Hugo

architecture
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

-Victor Hugo

art
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

-Victor Hugo

art
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

attitude
To love beauty is to see light.

-Victor Hugo

beauty
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

-Victor Hugo

beauty
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

-Victor Hugo

beauty
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

beauty
Toleration is the best religion.

-Victor Hugo

best
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

-Victor Hugo

change
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

-Victor Hugo

courage
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

dreams
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

-Victor Hugo

dreams
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

-Victor Hugo

education
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

-Victor Hugo

education
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

-Victor Hugo

faith
A library implies an act of faith.

-Victor Hugo

faith
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

-Victor Hugo

freedom
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

-Victor Hugo

funny
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

future
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

-Victor Hugo

future
To love another person is to see the face of God.

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

god
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

-Victor Hugo

god
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.

-Victor Hugo

god
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

-Victor Hugo

god
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

god
Conscience is God present in man.

-Victor Hugo

god
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

-Victor Hugo

god
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