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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
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He knew how to keep away from the models melancholy and lonely that characterized the poets of the time, being able to accept the vicissitudes of his life is not always happy to make existential experience and grasp the values ??and the nuances of the human soul.
It ' was a poet , playwright, essayist, writer, aphorist, visual artist, statesman, politician and activist for human rights in France.
His writings came to cover all literary genres, from lyrical poetry to drama, from political satire to the historical novel and the social , prompting acclaim throughout Europe and eventually be considered the father of Romanticism in France.
It ' was a poet , playwright, essayist, writer, aphorist, visual artist, statesman, politician and activist for human rights in France.
His writings came to cover all literary genres, from lyrical poetry to drama, from political satire to the historical novel and the social , prompting acclaim throughout Europe and eventually be considered the father of Romanticism in France.
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by Victor Hugo Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Politics)
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Music is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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