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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop ✨ Victor Hugo (1862). Les Misérables: Fantine, p.82, Library of Alexandria
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. ✨ Victor Hugo (2012). The Hunchback of Notre Dame, p.2, Courier Corporation
My greatness does not extend to this shelf. ✨ Victor Hugo (2000). Les Mis??rables, p.11, Modern Library
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the l … ▶
Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. ✨ Victor Hugo (2013). Delphi Complete Works o … ▶

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop ✨ Victor Hugo (1862). Les Misérables: Fantine, p.82, Library of Alexandria

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