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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. ✨ Victor Hugo (1938). Les Miserables: A Novel
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume One, p.7, Wordsworth Editions
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume One, p.100, Wordsworth Editions
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ✨ Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography. Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, F … ▶
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. ✨ Victor Hugo (1938). Les Miserables: A Novel

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