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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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