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“He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Press on! A better fate awaits thee.”
― Victor Hugo

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
― T.S. Eliot

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
― T.S. Eliot

“thus with a kiss I die”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”
― t.s. eliot

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Homo homini monstrum”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
― Victor Hugo

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
― T.S. Eliot

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!”
― Andrew Lloyd Webber, Love Never Dies: Phantom: The story continues...

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."

She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--

"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”
― Robert Browning Hamilton

“Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.”
― Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”
― Stephen Sondheim

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables