Tag: Victor Hugo

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.