As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor HugoAs we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
Victor HugoWhy worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Victor HugoI exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
Victor Hugo