“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
Victor Hugo
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“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”
Victor Hugo
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“We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.”
Victor Hugo
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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.”
Victor Hugo
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“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”
Victor Hugo
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“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
Victor Hugo
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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.”
Victor Hugo
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“As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of…. In literature, as in all things, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.”
Victor Hugo
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“Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.”
Victor Hugo
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“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
Victor Hugo
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“It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.”
Victor Hugo
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“Stupidity talks, vanity acts.”
Victor Hugo
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“Conscience is God present in man.”
Victor Hugo
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“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to history, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”
Victor Hugo
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“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Victor Hugo
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“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
Victor Hugo
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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
Victor Hugo
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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
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“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
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.”
Victor Hugo
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