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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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