#on

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ↗

— Bette Midler

#happiness #humor #inspirational #jealousy #success

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grotesque #means #nature #offer #our

Conscience is God present in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #man #present

Despotism is a long crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#despotism #long

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#someone #something #your

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#banks #before #changing #flowed #i

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

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