When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. Victor Hugo personality sight watches We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime. Victor Hugo iron simple fire The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. Victor Hugo eagles war The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. Victor Hugo real sea food In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing. Victor Hugo opera As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. Victor Hugo sublime views mean I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn. Victor Hugo twilight morning lying In the domain of art there is no light without heat. Victor Hugo heat light art Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. Victor Hugo sublime beautiful needs As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false. Victor Hugo literature beautiful art 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 eye night world Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. Victor Hugo food character people Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. Victor Hugo brother two hands The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head. Victor Hugo stones people fall By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. Victor Hugo clock hours hands A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man. Victor Hugo women unfortunate men God in his harmony has equal ends Victor Hugo women appreciation school Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me Victor Hugo doors night death There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. Victor Hugo trifling stories tree 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 law people art
