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Quote by Victor Hugo
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – 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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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. – Victor Hugo

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I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. – Michelangelo

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