"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
― Victor Hugo
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God
More From Victor Hugo
- "The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
- "We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."
- "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
More In God
- "Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."― Ludwig Wittgenstein
- "I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."― George Bernard Shaw
- "Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."― Blaise Pascal