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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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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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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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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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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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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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