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“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”

Victor Hugo · Poetry

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Victor Hugo

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

Good

Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Thanksgiving

Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Art

Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

God