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

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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