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Quote by Victor Hugo
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the fles

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo

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Happiness
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo

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Wise Words
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Ideas
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Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

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Art

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers

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Art

Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

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I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. – F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace

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I havent heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe Im listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. – John Boyd Orr

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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