What did Victor Hugo mean by: A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. Victor Hugo Writer · France Copy
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Authenticity, Deception, Suffering, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Distance, Idealization, Perception, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Distance, Integrity, Respect, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision? Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Exploration, Limitations, Perspective, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Deception, Illusion, Misleading, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
I’d rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Criticism, Quality, Recognition, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Benefit, Humility, Perspective, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Victor Hugo, Eternal, Human, Love, 0 Victor Hugo Writer · France
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. Marya Mannes Writer · USA
A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered. Mas Oyama Martial artist · South Korea
If I’ve grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There’s no need to explain it. Matisyahu Singer-songwriter
