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Quotes from William Shakespeare — Victor Hugo

1802–1885 France

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5 quotes

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

William Shakespeare (1864)

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

William Shakespeare (1864)

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

William Shakespeare (1864)

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.

William Shakespeare (1864)

Music...is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

William Shakespeare (1864)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Victor Hugo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.