Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Victor HugoWilliam Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, ch. 4
About Victor Hugo
French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables. (1802-1885)
More from Victor Hugo
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Les Misérables (1862)
- One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.Histoire d'un crime (1877)
- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.Thoughts, Postscriptum de ma vie, translated in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (1907)
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- Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.Vincent van Gogh
- If you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time.Lin-Manuel Miranda
- People have forgotten how to tell a story.Steven Spielberg
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