In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.


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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO