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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo

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Women
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Victor Hugo
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo

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Music
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. – Victor Hugo

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Art
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Sarah Vowell

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Happiness

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. – William Burroughs

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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. – Johnny Carson

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In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. – Bob Balaban

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Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. – Cathy McMorris

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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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