"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

More Victor Hugo quotes
"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
"Without seeking to comprehend the incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him.
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
"Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, ...
"The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this o...