The ideal and the beautiful are identical, the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form, he

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

Author: Victor Hugo

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

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

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat.