Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
Victor HugoHis judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor HugoRhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor HugoLet us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.
Victor Hugo