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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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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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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 for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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