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“You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway, I'm sad. What would you have me tell you? Man is wicked, man is deformed; the butterfly has succeeded, man has missed. God failed on this animal. A crowd gives you nothing but a choice of ugliness. The first man you meet will be a wretch. 'Femme' rhymes with 'infâme', woman is infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, in addition to melancholy, with nostalgia, plus hypochondria, and I sneer, and I rage, and I yawn, and I'm tired, and I'm bored, and I'm tormented! Let God go to the Devil!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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“My imagination will give out before I finish the journey,
I don't have the energy to make my dream real.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

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“Willpower, gunpowder, concussive thunder. Pink, orange, red, orange dreaming red.”
― Richard Siken

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“Bewigged tragedy has a reason for its existence.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

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