Victor Hugo

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Perancis · 1802 - 1885 · 369 kata bijak

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Kreativitas

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

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Kehidupan

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Alam

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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Kehidupan

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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Kehidupan

Liberation is not deliverance.

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Kreativitas

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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Motivasi

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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Seni

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

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Waktu

Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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Pendidikan

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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Keluarga

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Doa

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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Kejujuran

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

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Doa

Conscience is God present in man.

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Doa

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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Doa

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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Doa

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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Kehidupan

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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Kehidupan

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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Keluarga

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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