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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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