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  • The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

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    Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

  • Taste is the common sense of genius.

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    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

  • Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

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    Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

  • There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

  • Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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  • Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

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    Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

  • Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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    "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

  • Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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  • His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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    Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

  • There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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    Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

  • The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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    Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo”

  • The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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  • Genius: the superhuman in man.

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  • To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics
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Victor Hugo

  • Born: February 26, 1802
  • Died: May 22, 1885
  • Occupation: Poet
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