#ra

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

— Victor Hugo

#bring #fraternity #great #light #perils

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

— Bette Midler

#happiness #humor #inspirational #jealousy #success

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bored #himself #killed #lack #life

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aware #fact #ignorant #knows #man

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

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

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

— Victor Hugo

#epic #grandiose #ideal #lives #ode

Toleration is the best religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #toleration