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Quote by Victor Hugo
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; ther

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

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Future
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Victor Hugo
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. – Alfred Kreymborg

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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. – Willa Sibert Cather

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Sky & Clouds

Or those war-clouds that gather on the horizon, dragon-crested, tongued with fire;—how is their barbed strength bridled? what bits are these they are champing with their vaporous lips… – John Ruskin, “The Cloud-Balancings”

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Sky & Clouds

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. – Albert Smith (clouds)

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Sky & Clouds

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Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher. – Bjarne Stroustrup

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Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. – Jennifer Ellison

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I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. – Judith Krantz

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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I cant imagine what kind of writer Id be if I didnt have my kids. – Barbara Kingsolver

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