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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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