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Victor Hugo (Victor-Marie Hugo)Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. 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. Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. 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. Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. |