Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.

Victor Hugo in Les Miserables
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Victor Hugo in Les Miserables (1862)
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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