Quote by Victor Hugo
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction t

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. – Swami Vivekananda

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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. – Victor Hugo

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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. – Constantin Brancusi

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