Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885), novelist, poet, and dramatist. He is best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life." - Victor Hugo

"Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone." - Victor Hugo

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet." - Victor Hugo


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

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time." - Victor Hugo

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." - Victor Hugo

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