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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A great artist is a great man in a great child. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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