As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. – Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. – Henry David Thoreau