Victor Hugo Quotes
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Citations
Hugo, Victor. Cromwell. Translated by George Burnham Ives, George Barrie & Son, 1902, p. 24.
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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.