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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body later the body is taken long before the soul sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight but he saw two and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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