#d

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#france #kings #yes

Liberation is not deliverance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#liberation

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#female #lover #made #makes #nature

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

— Victor Hugo

#death #dreams #ideal #life #our

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#flesh #invisible #invisible world #luminous #night

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 #corresponds #form #hence #idea

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#develop #fierce #forest #human #men

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#epic #grandiose #ideal #lives #ode

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#come #idea #one thing #stronger #than

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #goodness #great #history #over